📚 Part 1: Understanding Peer Pressure

1. What is peer pressure?

When teachers tell you what to do

When friends or people your age try to make you do something

When your parents set rules at home

When you pressure yourself to do well

2. Which of these are examples of positive peer pressure? Tick all that apply:

Friends encouraging you to try a new sport

Classmates pressuring you to skip lessons

Friends supporting you to eat healthily

Peers encouraging you to be kind to others

Friends making you wear clothes you don't like

3. Peer pressure can affect your identity because:

It helps you make all your decisions

The choices you make help shape who you are

Your friends know you better than you know yourself

It doesn't affect your identity at all

✏️ Part 2: Dealing with Peer Pressure

4. Write three assertive phrases you could use to say 'no' to negative peer pressure:

a) No thanks, ________________________________

b) I feel uncomfortable ________________________________

c) I prefer ________________________________

5. Imagine your friends are pressuring you to exclude someone from your group. Describe how you would handle this situation whilst staying true to your values:

6. How can you tell if you're experiencing peer pressure? List three warning signs:

1. ________________________________

2. ________________________________

3. ________________________________

🤔 Part 3: Reflection - My Choices, My Voice

7. Complete these sentences about yourself:

What peer pressure means to me:

How I will stay true to myself:

8. Think about a time when you felt pressured by friends. How did it make you feel, and what would you do differently now?

9. How can you be a good friend to someone who is experiencing peer pressure?

Peer Pressure and Identity

Peer Pressure and Identity

📚 Part 1: Understanding Peer Pressure

✏️ Part 2: Dealing with Peer Pressure

🤔 Part 3: Reflection - My Choices, My Voice

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