Influences on Young People
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As children grow up, they are influenced more and more by the world outside their home, and by their friends, friends parents, teachers, and others they meet and interact with in the outside world. Young children learn from their parents, and they are influenced by their genetic makeup, which influences their personality type, e.g. shy, outgoing, smart, athletic, or neurotic (Harris, 2002). They will also be influenced by where they live - a busy city or a small town; by what their parents do - whether they are professionals or trades people, whether or not the mother works; by the social life of their parents and family - do they get to interact with other people a lot, are they members of clubs, societies, sporting groups etc.; whether they live near an extended family, or just the nuclear family; and what sort of school they attend. Children are influenced as they grow up by their peers - playmates and school friends. For instance, boys brought up in homes where guns, even toy ones, are forbidden will still make model guns out of legos, or any other play materials because they learn from their peers and from the media that guns are great toys for boys and they are a symbol of strength and authority. As children move into adolescence, the influence of peer pressure increases, and influences their choice of clothes, of music, their attitudes about life (Harris, 2002, 107). This is not necessarily bad, because adolescents usually spend their time with friends who sh
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o say no to things they don't want to do, and they can be taught appropriate responses with which they can fend off the jeers and taunts they get from people trying to get them to do something they don't want to do, such as by saying, "you do your thing, I'll do mine," or "I'm not dumb enough to do that kind of thing," or "Hey, I thought you were my friend. Don't push me. I can make up my own mind." They can learn to walk away from a situation, making an excuse if necessary, to give themselves time to think it over and decide if its something they really want to do.
Having parents who are involved in their children's lives, who care about who their friends are and what they are doing helps prevent children from starting to smoke, according to one study (Simons-Morton, 2002). Teens in the study with friends who were engaged in problem behavior, and whose parents were less involved with their lives were more likely to smoke, and this was true for both boys and girls, Whites, African Americans, children living with one parent, or with a mother who had not attended college - across all groups studied. Parental involvement is particularly important during early adolescence because this is a time when they are beginning to exer
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