Role of Peers in Children Development
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Peers play an important role in children's development by providing opportunities to learn and practice social skills like cooperation and conflict resolution. They also serve as agents of socialization that help shape children's behaviors and beliefs. While peer pressure can encourage both positive and negative behaviors, peers mainly reinforce values children learn from their family, and children tend to choose friends similar to themselves.
Role of Peers in Children Development
- 1. Role of Peers in Children Development
- 2. CHILD is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty. refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority.
- 3. CHILD DEVELOPMENT refers to the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence.
- 4. PEER refers to the people who are equal in such respects as age, education or social class, abilities, qualifications, age, background, and social status etc.
- 5. Role of Peers in Children Development
- 6. ROLE OF PEERS IN CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT They provide an arena for learning and practicing a variety of social skills, including negotiation, persuasion, cooperation, compromise, emotional control, and conflict resolution. Often provide much-needed social and emotional support.
- 7. ROLE OF PEERS IN CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT They serve as socialization agents that help to mold children’s behaviors and beliefs. They define options for leisure time. They offer new ideas and perspectives. They serve as role models and provide standards for acceptable behavior, showing what is possible, what is admirable, what is cool.
- 8. ROLE OF PEERS IN CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT They serve as socialization agents that help to mold children’s behaviors and beliefs. They reinforce one another for acting in ways deemed appropriate for their age, gender, or ethnic group.
- 9. ROLE OF PEERS IN CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT And they sanction one another for stepping beyond acceptable bounds, perhaps through ridicule, gossip, or ostracism.
- 10. THE REAL SCOOP ON PEER PRESSURE A common misconception is that peer pressure is invariably a bad thing. In fact, it’s a mixed bag. Peer pressure (or social pressure) is influence a peer group, observers, or an individual exerts that encourages others to change their attitudes, values, or behaviors to conform to those of the influencing group or individual.
- 11. THE REAL SCOOP ON PEER PRESSURE Many peers encourage such desirable qualities as truthfulness, fairness, cooperation, and abstinence from drugs and alcohol. Others, however, encourage aggression, criminal activity, and other antisocial behaviors
- 12. Although peer pressure is certainly a factor affecting development, its overall influence on children’s behaviors has probably been overrated. Most children acquire a strong set of values and behavioral standards from their families, and they do not necessarily abandon these values and standards in the company of peers.
- 13. Furthermore, they tend to choose friends who are similar to themselves in motives, styles of behavior, academic achievement, and leisure- time activities Curiously, much of the pressure to conform to others’ standards and expectations comes from within rather than from outside. In particular, most children engage in self-socialization - putting pressure on themselves to adopt the behaviors they think others
- 14. As teachers, we must keep in mind that most students desperately want to look good in the eyes of their peers. We can help them maintain a good public image in a variety of ways. For instance, we can help them acquire the skills they need public speaking techniques, personal hygiene, and so on to present themselves in a favorable light. We can assign small-group projects in which every student has a unique talent to contribute. And when valued classmates ridicule academic achievement, we can allow students to demonstrate their accomplishments to us privately through written assignments or one-on-one