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How to deal with peer pressure

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Activity 2: How to deal with negative peer pressure

In the face of peer pressure, many young people will decide to abandon their personal principles and make some wrong decisions due to being overly caring and considerate or fear of loneliness. In fact, no matter how important a friendship is, it should not be placed above morality, law or health. When facing peer influence that has negative impacts on us, we should stick to good conduct and maintain our personal positive qualities. Therefore, helping young people learn how to deal with peer pressure and make the right decisions is particularly critical. Here are some possible solutions.

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Read the following situations carefully and use the above methods to deal with negative peer pressure. Put a tick "✓" in the appropriate box to indicate the effective principle of handling the peer pressure (you can choose more than one) and describe the specific content of your response. You can also put down other new principles in the spaces provided.

Situation Principles of handling peer pressure

Specific content of conversation (Example) Wai Sum

wants you to cut your hair short as she does.

It looks fresh and stylish! However, you always like having long hair. You are afraid of affecting your relationship with Wai Sum, but you really can't accept short hair.

 Resolutely refuse with reasons

 Divert attention/Make excuses

 Self-mock

 Leave the scene

 Point out adverse effects to friends

 ________________

“My face is rounder, and long hair is more suitable. It can hide my fat face, and I really don't like short hair.”

1. King To forgot to bring his science homework, so he asked you to ask someone in the next class to lend the homework to him so he could avoid being scolded by the teacher.

 Resolutely refuse with reasons

 Divert attention/Make excuses

 Self-mock

 Leave the scene

 Point out adverse effects to friends

 ________________

“I know you are worried about being scolded by the teacher, but it is wrong to cheat. You should be honest and admit your fault.

Moreover, if the teacher finds out you are cheating, the student who lent you the homework will be punished too, and you will face more serious punishment. You should be honest with the teacher and ask for forgiveness."

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Situation Principles of handling peer pressure

Specific content of conversation 2. You bought a nice

birthday cake with the pocket money you saved to celebrate your mother's birthday. But on the way home, you met a few friends who suddenly snatched it away and said they wanted to eat it.

 Resolutely refuse with reasons

 Divert attention/Make excuses

 Self-mock

 Leave the scene

 Point out adverse effects to friends

 ________________

"This birthday cake is for celebrating my mother's birthday, and I don’t want to disappoint her. Moreover, my mother is waiting somewhere nearby to go home with me, so I have to go now."

3. Your family does not allow you to go out at night for fear that you will meet bad guys. But other classmates want you to join them to celebrate a classmate’s birthday in a park near your home in the evening. They said they would stop being friends if you do not go.

 Resolutely refuse with reasons

 Divert attention/Make excuses

 Self-mock

 Leave the scene

 Point out adverse effects to friends

 ________________

“You know that my family will not let me go out at night because they are worried about my safety.

How about going out on this Saturday afternoon to have fun together, and then have afternoon tea? Isn't that this arrangement has more fun?”

4. One day after school, you found several classmates hanging around, smoking and joking. They invited you to smoke with them, and said that if you did not join them, you would no longer be friends.

 Resolutely refuse with reasons

 Divert attention/Make excuses

 Self-mock

 Leave the scene

 Point out adverse effects to friends

 ________________

“I have respiratory disease, so I really can't smoke. Also, smoking is harmful to our health and it has serious side effects.

I want to continue to be friends with you, so I advise that you give up smoking. If you continue to force me to do things that I do not want to, you are not treating me as a friend at all.”

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Situation Principles of handling peer pressure

Specific content of conversation 5. Several senior

classmates always like talking to you. Recently, they told you that they disliked one of your classmates and asked you to join them in teasing him.

 Resolutely refuse with reasons

 Divert attention/Make excuses

 Self-mock

 Leave the scene

 Point out adverse effects to friends

 ________________

“I think this is bullying, and I will not participate in it.

Moreover, the school has zero tolerance for bullying and will definitely deal with it seriously. All students including senior students will be punished if they are involved in bullying. If someone has made a mistake, you can tell that person directly to fix the mistake. This is what students from senior classes should do.”

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