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Kids Health: Dealing With Peer Pressure
Making decisions on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to pressure you one way or another it can be even harder. When people your own age try to influence how you act, it's called peer pressure. It's...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Saying No to Alcohol and Other Drugs
Discuss negative peer pressure and learn about the harmful ways that drugs and alcohol can affect your body and mind. This website provides several discussion questions, writing prompts, and activity ideas through which you can talk and...
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
National Youth Anti Drug Media Campaign: Feeling Pressured? A Quiz
This online quiz helps teens gauge the amount of pressure they are experiencing from their friends to act and do as others do, plus suggestions for helping then stay free of negative influences.
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Cleveland Clinic: Adolescence
Learn how to navigate the adolescent years, including how to foster healthy conversations with your adolescent about peer pressure, body self-image, rape, and alcohol/drug abuse.
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National Crime Prevention Council: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Site provides great information for parents wanting to talk with their children about drugs and alcohol. Provides realistic and reasonable tips.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Saying No
A collection of strategies and activities to teach young scholars good refusal skills and skills for standing up to peer pressure when it comes to drug and alcohol use.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Running Away
Have you ever thought about running away from home? Have you run away? What are some of the reasons kids choose to run away? What are some of the difficulties they face once they are away from home and on their own? If you or a friend...