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Peer Pressure
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I am terrified about the up coming school year. I mean, I have good kids, but I knowt ahtt he peer pressure is going to be up another notch (my twin boys are 14). I remember from being that age that 'just say no' is a LOT harder than most people made it out to be. It is really hard at that age to think on your feet because youa re SO worried abuot waht the group thinks of you. Does anybody have any suggestions on things my sons can say when they don't want to do something that their friends want to do (not that their friends are bad, but they are teenagers, afterall and teenagers do stupid things) and not lose the friendship?
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Tell them to blame you. My mum told me this trick and it worked a charm. Whenever I was invited somewhere that I didn't want to do or to do soemthing that I didn't want to do, I would balme my mum. 'No, if my mum ever found out I would loose my car' or some such. Yes, they might get labeled a mum's boy by the 'cool kids' but, in my experience, a lot of kids were very sympathic and would start to talk to me about it 'Wow, your mum is reall strict! what else can't you do?' and the topic was completely derailed
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