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Peer influence has a greater impact on children's development than parenting styles according to the psychologist Judith Rich Harris. Children who grow up in disciplined or chaotic homes are equally likely to develop in similar ways if they mix with unruly classmates early on. During adolescence, peers account for 29% of a high schooler's time and influence their self-esteem and behavior more than family. Children and teens learn social norms from their peers and conform to their groups' styles and activities.
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- 1. How do our peers affect our growth and development?
- 2. Social Development Judith Rich Harris (an American psychologist) claims that children who grow up in a disciplined household are just as likely to grow as undisciplined tearaways as those raised in chaotic homes, if they mix with unruly classmates at an early age. Influences such as; popular culture, friends and gangs have a greater influence over children than family life. In the long run it is what happens to children outside of the parenting home that makes them turn out the way they do.
- 3. Harris states in her book ‘The Nurture Assumption “it is a cultural myth that parenting styles influences how children turn out.” Larson et al says that “the amount of time spent with peers increases during adolescence accounting for around 29% of high school students time”. Harter 1998 reported that peer acceptance is positively associated with self-esteem and Newcomb et al indicated that peer experience prior to adolescence affected self-esteem in young adulthood.
- 4. Whether they hang out with nerds, jocks, delinquents, or crowds in-between, young people need to belong to a distinct group. Children and teens learn how to behave in society from their peers. They do what their peers do and wear what their peers wear.