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Friendships and Peer Pressure. Friendship. is a relationship with someone you know, trust, and regard with affection Your friends are usually people who live near you or who like the same things that you do. Aquaintance. Someone you see occasionally or know casually
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Friendship • is a relationship with someone you know, trust, and regard with affection • Your friends are usually people who live near you or who like the same things that you do
Aquaintance • Someone you see occasionally or know casually • Some of your acquaintances may become your close friends
Benefits of having friends: Teaches you to: • Communicate • Work out problems • Compromise (both sides agree to give up something) • Give others support • Consider other’s feelings • Let you share your life (good and bad)
Peer Pressure • Peers: people closest to you in age who are a lot like you • Peer pressure: the influence that your peer group has on you • Use the H.E.L.P. criteria to recognize negative peer pressure (Healthful, Ethical, Legal, Parent approved)