As a parent, how would u prevent peer pressure?

[micro-x]

As a parent, how do you think as a parent is able to stop/reduce peer pressure? And preventing your kid from turning bad in the future?

- Any interesting experiences? (Those who are already a parents)
- What do you think our parents should/can do? (As a teenage point of view)

[Kate*]

I don't think parents can prevent peer pressure as they can't control what kids do or say to each other unless it's damaging like with bullying. Parents can talk to their kids to keep them from giving into pressure though.

[Illuminate]

I think it's best to keep a close relationship with your son/daughter to help prevent peer pressure getting to them. You will hopefully find that your child will talk to you more about things.
Teaching them what is right and wrong from a young age can help too. So that they can make a judged decision for themselves.
It's all about bringing them up to know a sense on right and wrong really

[Nostalgia]

i think its all about letting them know that they can ask you anything

[LucyLouWho]

I plan on trying my best to keep our communication as open as possible, so if there is anything that he has questions about, he is able to come to me and ask. I don't want him to feel as if I don't understand, or even want to understand, for that matter.

[Rainbow Dash]

Honestly, I don't think there's lot you can do :/ Just have an open relationship with them and talk to them more. If you try and control their life too much they will only do the opposite you want them to do :/ Maybe I'm basing this on myself but if my mum told me I couldn't hang out with my friend because she smoked and drank alcohol with me I would have hanged out with her even more.

[BDF]

I can give you a very long list of what didn't work on me. Since I'm not a parent myself that's all I'd be able to do....

I'll drop a brief note. I guess it depends a lot on how you've probably brought your kids up so far, and their personalities themselves... but what for sure caused hell to vacate into my familly's house is my parents trying to dead straight prevent by force any odds of peer pressure taking it's toll.

Suspended pocket money, grounded, grounded, 10 different sofwares on every PC in the house to monitor what sites I visited and LOADS of other crap. It sounds almost stupid and very stereotypical when I summarize it like this... but there's too much I have to say otherwise so I'm gonna keep it short. It made me initially self-concious, bah... loads of bad things. Then I snapped out and turned pissed off and rotten.

Perhaps a key worth mentioning is allow them to be honest... because for shit sake I'm bitter about this to this day, I could barely ever say anything honest to my parents without gettin criticized for it, like I'm not allowed to think for myself. So... why bother being honest? It's probably the biggest thing that broke down our relationship. I completely lost most my respect for my parents and stopped listening then... so there was very little from that point onwards they could then do to bring me up anymore.