Young people are often influenced in their behaviors and situations by others in the same age. This is called “peer pressure”. Do the disadvantages outweigh the advantages?

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Nowadays youngsters are more engaged with their
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rather than their atomic families, so being affected by their other young
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is an inevitable issue. Even though there may be some special occasions when
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effects are valuable, I will elaborate on why, I believe
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effects often not only deteriorates the self-confidence of teenagers but
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mislead them, especially students.
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with, feeling self-esteem by teenagers is vulnerable to being hurt by the harmful friendship that they experience in
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phase of their
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. In fact,
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intensive could be the effect of acquiescence on a young man, or woman, that they afraid of being judged whenever they want to express their independent attitudes and take strategic decisions in their
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. To exemplify, I remember that during studying in high school, I used to allocate most of my time to solving tough discrete
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and calculus questions, rather than solving ordinary and regular problems.
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, to prevent myself from being judged by my classmate, I never talked with my teachers about my lack in
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, so I lost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take the National
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Olympiad, which unfortunately led to many drawbacks in my prospective future career and scientific path.
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, peer pressure could lead students to follow the mode of their
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, which is somehow misleading for exceptional young men. In fact, from one side doing a blind mimicry from the way that accompanying
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are pursuing, maybe not be the solution for an individual, and on another side, being afraid of not being accepted from, or even being rejected, from the club of close
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, due to making different strategic decision in
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, is stressful for youngsters. So ,unfortunately, young men become trapped by choosing a way of
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that it's not their cup of tea. In my story of the National
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Olympiad, in fact, I thought that in a case that I choose the Olympiad path rather than the normal path of my classmates, I will not only put
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step in the wrong way but lost my network of close
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. To conclude, parents should train youngsters so that do not be under the deteriorating influence of their fellow ages, though they should take care of their constructive friendships.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • influence
  • behaviors
  • peer pressure
  • academic performance
  • social activities
  • risky behaviors
  • health and wellbeing
  • social skills development
  • teamwork
  • communication
  • empathy
  • individuality
  • independence
  • conformity
  • emotional well-being
  • mental well-being
  • self-esteem
  • negative consequences
  • positive influence
  • motivation
  • encouragement
  • sense of belonging
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