It is a real challenge and we should better face it than pretend it does not exist.
There comes an age in our kids' life when parents influence is lower then of their peers . No matter how well you'll explain to your daughter that dressing that way is going only to make her look more mature and not prettier, if that is the way her schoolmates dresses , she'll go like that .
How do you deal with this period of your child 's life?

Mine have yet to reach the age where they are influenced by their peer group, but I have already taught my daughter that it is okay to be different, that infact it is better to be different and happy than to follow what others are doing if she knows it is wrong or not something she is comfortable with. I just hope she has listened.

Mine are stil toddlers. It is something I am concerned about, especially if they mix with a bad crowd and start smoking, drinking or worse. I just hope that they will just never have the desire to do this.

My daughter is still five so I am not yet worried about the problems pertaining peer pressure, however when that time comes, I'll just do my best to guide her correctly and yet still be able to give her enough freedom to find out what she really wants as a young lady, which friends she wants to hang out with, and what her hobbies really are.

I put peer pressure on my son right now. We don't talk about it, I Show him how it feels to e under pressure so that way when he is faced with it, he knows how to handle it. Kids learn alot better when you show then rather than tell me.

I am experiencing that right now. My daughter is 13 years old. She just refuse to listen to whatever advice I try to give her which she has her own reasonings. But when her friends say anythings, she gladly accepts and follows what they said. Sometimes I guess the generations gap between us is getting wider and wider. It is as though we are more stupid than their friends.

It must be her friends having the same lines of thinkings with her than us that make her so attached and have full trust in them. As parents, I feel that I have no choice but to get to know her friends better.

Peer pressure is very strong. Many teens think that they know better than their parents and believe that we don't know what we're talking about.

I started talking to my kids about smoking and drinking when they were pretty young. As a three year old my daughter would see someone smoking and tell me that the person might get sick from smoking. As a teen now, she's never smoked and most of her friends don't either.

I just hope that my kids continue to choose friends with the same values that I installed in them.

Maybe if we all kept talking to our kids about things they will follow our guidelines.