a. First, due to peer pressure, children can easily adopt dangerous habits. They see what their friends do and copy them. For example, many may develop bad habits such as alcohol consumption, smoking, drug abuse.
b. This means that their peer group's approval gets placed above that of their parents and teachers. This in turn has a direct effect on their academics.
c. Second, children's academic performance is also affected by their peers. For teenagers, it is important for them to be accepted by their peer group.
d. If the students come from poor economic backgrounds or come from a family which might not give them money to spend extravagantly, they end up feeling bad or ashamed of themselves and their family, because in the eyes of their peers, they are somehow 'lesser' or 'weird' individuals.
e. Finally, negative peers also make children feel ashamed or bad about themselves and their family. At the average school, students come from various economic backgrounds.
f. Here are three ways in which peer-pressure can negatively affect children.