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Social pressures and education
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I suggest that you read the column by Bob Herbert in Thursday's _New York Times_. It IS what is happening in too many places. Bluntly, peer pressure is actively keeping blacks from being educated, even if they would like to be. It even extends to social interactions outside the schools. However many strongly educated people they can produce, it will be necessary to get the ones willing and able to learn not just out of the anti-intellectual schools, but out of the entire community. And I am not ...
Punishing the whole class......
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I am so angry!! Today at rainy day lunch recess, one of the children in my daughter's first/second grade combo class wrote "F*** You" on a fellow student's desk. The teacher discovered this and called in the vice principal. They were unable to determine who did it, so he asked her what she wanted to do about it. She decided to keep the whole class in the room on Monday for lunch (they'll eat in the room), then make them spend their entire lunch recess writing "I will use correct l ...
oops she did it again
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Well..I am growing some balls...My 12 year old did it again..home not 5 or 10 minutes late..home 4 hours late..no phone calls..nothing. I talked to her about it. I asked her if she had even onmce thought while she was out having fun what her consequences might be since she knew she was late. She had no thoughts on it at all. I then asked her that because a normal grounding for being late is a day per minute late, how the thoughts of that many days being grounded for being 4 hours late would have ...
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Teen Peer Pressure Peer Pressure Among Teens #1 UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF TEENAGE PEER PRESSURE In most cultures, the training of teens begins in infancy and continues until the teenage years, whereupon the teenager enters the more of an adult role. Even in primitive cultures, this pattern is common and often includes an initiation ceremony, a "right of passage," to mark the transition from childhood to adulthood. In modern society, adult status comes many years after adolescence. While a teenager achieves physical maturity and wants social independences, he must ...
Group Interventions For Troubled Adolescents Can Backfire WASHINGTON - It is not always a good idea to group teenagers in trouble with other delinquent teenagers if the goal is to break the bad behaviors, say researchers. Training adolescents to give up destructive behaviors like delinquency, substance abuse and violence seem to fail if several of the adolescents in the group have a tendency toward these behaviors, according to longitudinal research reported in this month's American Psychological Association's American Psychologist .
The ATP study examined 119 high-risk youth's (male and female) smoking and teachers' reports of delinquency behaviors. The teens and their families participated in a parent focus group, a teen focus group, a parent and teen focus group or a placebo group (videotapes and written material of prosocial behavior) for 12 weeks. Tobacco use among the teens in the teen focus group increased after three months, as well as teachers' reports of delinquent behaviors. Both tobacco use and delinquency also increased for those youth in the teen focus group three years ...
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How do I stop her having sex at 13? I managed to control myself and talk to her about it while telling her how disappointed I was. She told me that they’d done it before, used a condom and that she didn’t felt pressured into it. The boy had tried to convince her that she couldn’t get pregnant as she hadn’t started her periods and that she wouldn’t get a disease because she’d slept only with him. He sounds a great kid!
Although she knew how to protect herself and be assertive about this, I don’t believe she’s ready to have sex. I’ve told her that I expect this behaviour to stop, but she said that she isn’t going to and that she didn’t think she’d done anything wrong. I have taken away most of her privileges for a week, but I don’t know how to stop this happening again. I don’t want her feeling that she can’t talk to me, or that she does it out of rebellion, but I want her to know that it’s not acceptable. I feel out of my depth.
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Hold on to Your Kids The book is referred to a lot on the Continuum Concept list and I was interested in it because it discussed the issue of how poor parenting (read; excessive discipline or control) could destroy attachment with the result that parenting would become a lot more difficult. It does indeed do this but what has really grabbed my attention at the moment is the discussion of what happens after the attachment is broken and a child changes from being parent oriented to become peer oriented.
What happens when a child becomes peer oriented is that they start to seek the company of their peers and to reject the parents, all as a natural part of their attachment instincts. They no longer place any value in what their parents think and will probably actively dislike anything to do with their parents or their values or tastes.
Adolescence and the formation of Identity Adolescence and the Formation of Identity Adolescence is a transitional period between childhood and adulthood, although it isn’t possible to define either childhood or adulthood precisely. Childhood ends around puberty adulthood starts shortly afterwards. In the west during the last couple of centuries economic and social conditions have demanded that more young people should be educated to meet the needs of industry and commerce. As education extended into teenage years fewer than a hundred years ago in England, a gap was created between childhood and adulthood and the young ...
"School Work" Problems Teenagers Face There are many problems that teenagers face these days. They are peer pressure, crime and drugs. Peer pressure is a term describing a person's changes, or temptations to change, in attitude, behavior and morals as directly influenced by their peer group. It is particularly common because most youths are forced to spend large amounts of time in fixed groups regardless of their opinion of those groups. Also, young people are more willing to behave negatively towards those who are not members of their groups such as teasing ...