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Peer pressure is no joke. I am going to share a story with you of a 14-year old named Emily. It was her last year in middle school and as you may have noticed, also the time where friends decide to go all in for Jesus or they decide they want to follow the crowd and go for popularity. Emily had a great group of friends she would hang out with at school, but something changed when she was in 8th grade. Her friends wanted to start hanging out at the mall more on the weekends, which is not a bad thing in and of itself.
However, one day while Emily was hanging out with her friends, she noticed as her and her best friend Jenna were looking at Jewelry that Jenna slipped a bracelet into her purse as if nothing happened. Then, Jenna looked at Emily and said, “All right, let’s go!” and walked out of the store. Emily was shocked. She wasn’t sure if what she thought she saw actually happened or if she was just seeing things. Emily knew she should have said something but was in such shock that she didn’t.
A couple weeks later, Jenna asked Emily if she wanted to hang out with her again, but this time they were going to go hang out at the bowling alley. Not giving the last experience a thought, Emily agreed. This time, Jenna had asked a couple of her other friends to come join them. When they got to the bowling alley, Emily learned really quickly that their plans were not really to go hang out at the bowling alley. Their plans were to go to a party that some of the popular kids in high school were throwing. At this party, there would be no supervision and there would be alcohol. Emily was struggling big time, because she didn’t know how to tell them, “no."
Without going into the story much more, I want to talk about peer pressure.
So, what it peer pressure? Peer pressure is feeling like you have to do what your peers are doing in order to be liked or accepted by them.
Like with Emily, she felt the pressure to do things her best friend wanted her to do, because she didn’t want to lose her best friend.
To learn more about peer pressure, check out today's episode.
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