Write about the kinds of pressures you feel:
a) as a student
b) as a friend
c) as a son or daughter or family member.
How do you deal with those pressures? Are you satisfied with the way you deal with them, or are there any ways to handle those pressures better?
As a student, I deal with peer pressure by thinking back to what I've, and use that knowledge in my writing. However, as a friend, I deal with peer pressure based on life skills to decide what's right, and wrong. As a son, and family member I do it the same way I would as a friend.
ReplyDeletepeer presher is not delt with in our school outher than eather agreing on cussing someone out. I quite often hear things like "thats the worst @#$% idea ever". Peouple tend to go with thair frends. Evenchaly thair will be a time to defend your choices agenst your frends and its how you handle that that definds what tipe of person you are. When your parents are preshering you there is nothing you can do. I've tryed it faild misribly.
ReplyDeleteA) As a student I honestly don't feel student peer pressure. I say what I have to say and do what I need to do. My work gets done, besides who cares what your peers think?
ReplyDeleteB) As a friend i do feel a little bit of pressure. I'm always stuck doing some kind of favor for somebody whether it's throwing out trash or giving them an answer to something. It's kinda hard to say no because, well they are my friends and it just feels like if you don't help them they'll get mad at you.
C) As a daughter I feel A LOT of pressure. I try so hard not to screw up at home, but I always manage to mess up somehow. For example, yesterday I was filling up a glass of water at the fridge and my moms cell started ringing so I tossed it at my mom and it landed on my step dads chest. That sudden action surprised him and his reaction was really mad and I just kept thinking "I screwed up again, I was doing so good. I screwed up again."... I live to impress my family, but I don't live to impress myself I don't wake up ready to conquere the day I wake up filled with fear and worry of upsetting my mom and step dad. I want to do the best for them instead of them explaining to somebody in the future that their daughter was a screw up and couldn't do anything right.
-Katie M.
At any age you will be able to come face to face with peer pressure. Some may want to ask, what is peer pressure? There could be allot of definitions for peer pressure, but the one that everyone comes to, is any person that changes someone's attitude. For example one girl was shopping with her friends. As her friend walks over to her and tells her to "take a lip stick tube. Come on take it, no one will now." Of course the girl didn't know what to do either take it or don't take it and have no one left. What should she do? How to do it? As ended up she looked up and saw her friends looking at her, but as her mind was going back and forth she stuck two lip stick tubes in her purse and walked out with her friends. She couldn't even believe that she had done that, but her friend simply replied "I didn't tell you to take it." In her mind she wouldn't have done it if she wasn't under pressure. Two days later two police officers came to her door. Asking to search her purse; she simply told them yes, as they sourced it they had found the two lip stick tubes, and had arrested her for shop lifting. She never told them her friends had told her to do it. Peer pressure can make you do good choices and wrong choices. As a fourteen year old teenager I have been in peer pressure my whole life and it as not yet died down. Peer pressure can be all around us in school, grades, or even your friends. As a student I myself have come encountered with peer pressure. Some things simpler as physical education were I need to decide either to do it or to skip it for that day. Not just gym class, even projects or homework for some people can cause peer pressure. For example when coming home one day from school and you have a lot of homework and your friends tell you to go ride bikes with them, you need to decide what to do. To the internet 70% of children make the right decision but 30% has a mind that easily does it wrong. Another example of peer pressure is a friend. One person can set your mind straight; one person can be mean and make it rube off on you. About 85% of everyday lives have peer pressure due to the one word FRIENDS. Friends will be the one to tell you right from wrong and if they are really your friend they won’t do that. Allot of times people will make people decide from being a friend or not, that’s half peer pressure. Some kids don't even think when they ask you so they don't know exactly what they're doing, but if the other person is thinking then they will think that it is peer pressure. Friends have different groups, but all together they can equal peer pressure. Instead of friends with peer pressure you could also do it as a son or a daughter in a family. Some times if a family member gets hurt or is in tough decisions in his or her life then they can comet suicide. Suicide is the number one concern in peer pressure. For example let’s say that something had happened in your life and everyone hated you and your sibling was in a car accident and got extremely hurt. Peer pressure is hard to over come you never know what is going through that persons mind and you never know what it could end up with. Peer pressure can have many ways of helping it like talking to someone about it or just talking by you. Some people will conquer it, or go up and face it. My ways of handling peer pressure is just talking about it with someone I can trust or talking about it with one of my family members. A couple week's ago my sister got into a car accident with her feonsa, of course I was very upset and was crying, until I heard she would be ok. How I handled it wasn't just by crying every night, but I also talked to my mom and told some of my friends. Some of the people I had told were very help full. Peer pressure can happen at any time, but your actions can cause it.
ReplyDelete~Leah
Oh, peer pressure, the thing that can bite you up the butt, without even noticing. It's all around us. Government, school, the store, you name it. For example look at our congress that we elected. They make decisions that are told to them by their political party, these decisions that are votes, that count on making laws. My view on peer pressure is a widely openly window, waiting to close. You can go through the window or you can stay where you are. Peer pressure can be brought on by yourself. Honestly, peer pressure is something idiotic. You made the decision, not your peers. But it depends on the view of things, on what happened. For example if your at school with your friends and they tell you to do something horrendous, that's not appropriate and you do it, why should it be called "peer pressure"? It's not your friends fault they told you to do it. It's your fault. You did it. I'm not even going to answer the questions above, you should be making the right decision in the first place. I'll be the first to tell you that I've done some pretty messed up things, and I'm sure everyone on here has done something too. Your not pressured at all. Its your mind messing with you, you can pick what you want, not your peers. All in all it can be both ways of what I said.
ReplyDelete-Normando
Peer pressure that it is a word that should really stick out to you when someone, or yourself, says it. Why, because everybody has been a victim of it in many shapes and forms. As a student you feel lots and lots of peer pressure from your friends and classmates. The pressure that you will feel as a student is huge in fact it is so bad that people sometimes ruin there hopes and dreams. I've heard and been around people who have had a gift and were going to be something grreat and they did something stupid which completely ruined their lives. Its hard because lets face it you have to give up your prescious time to do something you dislike. But in the end there is an ultimate reward. Another way to badly experiance peer pressure is from your friends. In every friendship you endure peer pressure and it can sometimes lead to life changing results. I sometimes have had to do some things that my friends told me to do that got me into tons of trouble. Friends can put you in the worst of situations, but you have to fight through it. Now one of the biggest pressures I feel is being the oldest sibbling in the family. As the oldest sibbling, whenever I am out with my brother or sister and something happens to them I am responsible. So when I'm out and I am with my brother and sister and my friend sayscome with me someplace I am dead torn between the two. I deal with these pressures by thinking to myself,"What do I want to do, but what does God want me to do. And I think it is a good way with dealing with peer pressure, because every time I use it works.
ReplyDeleteBy: Jake Stahre
The pressures I feel as a student are that I always feel pressured to be way to smart. I always want to please people by getting good report cards and grades and when I don't do that I feel like I've let everyone down including myself.
ReplyDeleteas a friend I feel the pressure of always helping them out or doing whatever I can to not let them down. I feel like if I'm not doing whatever I can to help them out I'm being a bad friend. As a daughter I feel alot of pressure and I think alot of other people do to. You want to do whatever you can to please your parents but sometimes you can't. You always want to like the things they do or play the sports they did so they feel happy, but you can't always do that. You can't have the same personality your parents have just because you think they would like that. I deal with these pressures just by doing my best in whatever I can I try to do my best as a student, friend, and daughter. I am satifised with the way I deal with the pressures because I feel like as long as I try my best and give forth all my effort I will do the best I can.
- Sinead
Yeah I feel what i feel is alot of pressure on me. And like i dont want to complain but like with having to keep up with grades, sports socaily, and still have time to breath gets tough sometimes. With parents expecting perfect grades its hard. And i love hanging with my friends, but sometimes adding friends gets hard. And i'd like to wish i may have a career in sports (can't a guy dream) so putting in pratice is also hard to balance out. But to manage it all i try to put it in an order, Family, Friends, School, than sports.
ReplyDeleteVaughn
I feel that in my life I am not greatly preassured to do much of anything. When I succeed I am congralation but the expectations are not too high. The only things I am pressured to do are the things I have committed to. I deal with the pressure I obtain from my actions and life by blowing off steam with my sax, running, reading, and other various things. I feel that I deal with the pressures very well.
ReplyDeleteMatt Fillion
As a student peer pressure dosne't matter to me because I don't get peer pressured. I don't really talk to anyone because I don't have friends. Thats only what people think. And really if I start going around saying that people would deny me saying its a lie. It really doesn't matter to me. I can't really say anything for freindship because I don't have a friend so... there. A daughter doesn't matter to me because where I live I am not wanted, so I really can't much for that one either. At home I like to be by myself. Sorry:(
ReplyDeleteAngel
As a student, I come to feel pressures everyday. Mainly it is to succeed and come across as the best student that I can be. I feel a bit pressured by my teachers to never make the "silly" mistakes or say the wrong answer. To deal with these pressures I strive to be the best that I can be. At home, I study for any exam and do all my homework as diligently as I can with what my busy schedule allows me. In some cases I feel that I can deal with the pressure and the reults of the pressure a little better. When I do mess up or come out with an unexpected grade I really pound myself deep into the ground. I would like to work calming myself down and learn from my mistakes because it isn't the little mistake you make on you math test in middle school that gets you into college. As a friend I am pressuresd to provide my buds with a positive influence or someone to talk to in times of hardship. I have never been pressured to do anything negative like drugs or drinking. To deal with this pressure I feel I usually just try to always be there for anyone of my friends and do the best that I can do to give them someone to look up to or strive to be better than. I am honestly satisfied with the ways that I deal with this pressure; it seems to working fine, and I haven't run into any major conflicts. As a daughter I seem to feel the most pressure. The pressure to succeed beyond my capable ability and be the best and achieve the best. Of course my parents love me anyway you put it, but it feels like I have to impress them in some way, whether it is sports or school, for them to be satisfied. (Which isn't neccesarily true.) Therefore, to deal with this, I always make sure that I give 110% on the sport's field, behind the desk, and with the descions I make in my life. They have always said, "As long as you do your best that is all we can ask for." That is what I have been striving to do. I don't think I have to change anyway that I handle this pressure becasue it seems to me that my parents are very proud with what I have done with my life and how I have set up for my future. I also feel that since I am giving my best that there is nothing else I can do to deal with the pressure besides always stay calm and don't have a emotional breakdown when something doesn't turn out as planned. Overall, pressures are present through life and one is not going to get through them if they are not handled properly and carefully.
ReplyDelete~Lauren Brown
As a student I really don't feel much peer pressure. This is mostly because I do my work, and answer the questions I’m asked.
ReplyDeleteAs a friend I do feel a great deal of pressure. Sometimes they pressure you into doing something that you don't want to do. If I was at the beach with my friend and she asked if I wanted to go far out into the ocean with her I'd say but sometimes I feel cornered into saying yes. Peer pressure from your friends can happen but you can prevent it by saying no. If you think about it a friend that peer pressures you might not be a true friend. Although this really depends on how often they peer pressure you and what they want you to do.
As a daughter I feel A LOT of peer pressure. It doesn't help that I’m the youngest daughter and have an amazing older sister. She is good at math, sports, singing and dancing but I’m not good at any of those. Sometimes I feel as if I have to live up to her but I do know that I don't. When I was a little younger my mom, dad, and sister all pestered me to get my ears pierced a lot. Especially my dad! Once I thought I was going to give in but I didn't give in. Although last year I did get them pierced to my WHOLE families surprise. Katie M. said that she felt like she couldn't screw up or she'd be known as the "screw up" but she isn't one. Katie you are NOT alone!!
Always remember to say no to peer pressure!!
Kyra C.
Peer Pressure is almost as rediculous as popularity. The reason to chop at someone to do something they think is wrong or unneccesary for them to do is makes about as much sense as an ox driving a prius. But if I ever find myself in such a situation, I try to be as persist in my answer as my pressurer.
ReplyDelete--JT Kennedy--
Peer pressure is something that everyone deels with in life. Whether you are the target or the person targeting, it is going to affect you. I am lucky enough to say that I have never been peer pressured in any extreme situations, but I do know people that have; it stinks! Peer pressure is the cause of many problems in our society today. Even adults have to deel with it. We have the tools to say no to peer pressure and I think we should use them! It is unnecessary and ridiculous.
ReplyDelete-Faith P.
As a student there is a lot of pressure maintaing high grades and being active in class. These grades determine your life in the future and which college you will attend. You always have to be studying to have a very succesfull future, and it is very hard to do.
ReplyDeleteThere is pressure being a friend, but not a lot. It is supporting your friends. Sometimes when your friend has a problem you want to help, but sometimes you just don't know what to say and you don't want to give them the wrong advice. Also, you want them to trust you, but if you give them wrong advice they might not anymore. Secrets are also hard because sometimes you know it would be better to tell someone and get help, but you don't want to break a promise and loose their trust. Plus its hard to keep up with your own problems, and hard to keep up with thiers too. The good thing is that they are there for you, so most of that pressure goes away knowing you have someone to help you.
There is pressure being a daughter because my dad expects me to be better than my brothers were because they did not get high grades. Which leads back to school pressure.
Unfortunetly, i do not handel these pressures well. I just try to deal with them. I try my best in school and push myself to do better, which will make my dad happy if i succeed in doing well in school, and I try to listen to my friends.
I am not satisfied with the way I handel this pressure. I shouldn't just deal with them, I should just ask for help when i need it. Its ok to ask for help, and people, like me, need to realize that. I stay out of drama at school so I don't have a lot of friend pressure, but school is definetly stressfull.
-Katie LaBella
Being a teenager is a difficult stage for people. Peer pressure is one of the key ideas. Picking difficult choices or being in sticky situations can be hard. As a student it can be very stressful dealing with tests, homework, and grades; it’s not fun. Others may feel a different way; some could care less what they get on their report card and most people it means the world to them on what they got on their report card. In my opinion being a student is the least peer pressuring job when it comes to being a friend or a son/daughter. I believe there are different types of friends people vision each other as. The first type of friend is just a pal someone you just say hello to in the hallway maybe sit next to each other in class or have a conversation sometimes. Other type is I call kind of a non-true friend, is someone who you truly dislike hate but you hangout with them all the time to try to be popular or just have more friends or just have a friend, or you feel sorry for them, to be nice, be there friend, even though you just see them as one of your peers in school. Absolute worst type of friend in my perspective is a follower friend. Everyday that kid follows one of their peers around, just like a lost puppy who can’t find its home. Does whatever that person’s requests, hates whoever that person hates and etc. During this whole entire time that one person who thinks they can control anyone, never does anything nice for their friend who is the follower, who tends to think that not even its friend just a human who obeys its orders. All at the end that one friend who did everything for he/she gets stab right in the back. My last and most favorable is a true friend, a person who will be at your side when you have a problem. Someone who will pick you up when you fall, care about hat you think and how you feel. Being all those types are friends are rough, there is always going to be a time when your friends don’t like your other friends. You get wedged in the middle of a whole group of people. If you are trying to help all your friends then the peer pressure will fade away bit by bit. Occasionally the absolute terrifying peer pressure is being a son/daughter. The weight is mostly is when you get compared to your older sibling(s). You may think your sibling(s) are doing what your parents wanted to do when they were your age. Maybe be good at a sport, get a successful job, or have the profession they contain. Usually the oldest sibling actually have it the hardest sometimes, sometimes if you are the big sibling you have to help your younger ones with school or their social life. Sometimes it feels like people can’t even come to close to being as successful as their older sibling(s).Never feel like you have to do anything that is horrific or challenging. Peer pressure is hard, but sometimes you are just going to have to live with it. It teaches you to become a stronger person than who you really are.
ReplyDelete-Kate Swope 8-7
You feel peer preasure in different ways, due to different situations.
ReplyDeleteAs a student you feel peer preasured into smoking, taking drugs, or...well...you know. I feel that peer preasure is going to get worce from now on, especially in school. High School is coming, and for me, it's like someone's walking up and smaking me in the face! (It was just yesterday when we walked into IMMS's doors, scared to death!) We were kinda preasured into thinking that Middle School would be super scary, but truthfuly, I don't want to leave! I love the teachers, and know practically everyone, but part of me wants to go, and explore the world!
As a friend, I've learned that, sometimes, we are preasured into beleiving our friend that Bob is the meanest person ever! This has happened to me! My friend said that this person was the ruddest, crullest person ever, but it turns out they were the kindest, nicest person! I know for a fact that no matter what my opinion is on someone, that my friends will still be my friends!
Family peer preasure is the worst because your really close to them! Say a relative drank beer, nonstop, and that relative was your role model! If you were a five year old, you probably didn't know better, but since your role model was drinking, you would drink too!
Goodness!
I hate PEER PREASURE! It's just like DRAMA, but with worse CONSEQUENCES!
Tori Rose Ballinger
Peer Preasure
ReplyDeleteThe reason for peer preasure is ridiculous. Students are manipulated by others to make other peope feel good. But this is utterly wrong. Students should not strive on the fact of other dismay. The real problem in schools today is not peer preasure it's bullying. Bullying takes place where ever there is a helpless kid in a corner, or weirdo in the playground. Kids are mean and the only one who can save them is their selves.
C.Straw
talking about peer pressure is starting to make me think of Mark Brittain from staying fat for sarah byrns. He is always trying to push his "absolute" religion on others and telling them that if they don't believe in what he very strongly believes they will eventually rot in hell paying for the mistakes they made during life. he even peer pressured jody into doing whatever he does.
ReplyDelete-Katie M.
P.S Thanks kyra it's nice to hear that
ReplyDelete-Katie M.
Being a girl involved in sports, and who pays attention and cares about grades in school is hard work. Also, I don't have parents who teach me unscrupious ways of life, they are strict. People seem to expect me to do my best, look gorgeous, never, ever be mean or have a bad day, or show a hair out of place" said GL magazine. It's 100% true. Two major topics of my life are school and my family. Huge weights are placed on my shoulder because I am an older sister. I am supposed to be a good role model and everything for my little sister, Rachel, but it is a difficult job. Rachel is an energetic little fifth grader. She and i can get on each others last nerve and sometimes we explode at each other. Things can get ugly verbally, and sometimes a little 'girl-on-girl' physical. I really need to whet up my mood sometimes and it can be dire. Also, being a daughter of two intelligent, austere adults can be odious. They both push me to the limit in school and sports. I recently had to sever lacrosse from my infinitive schedule. This action seems to be inscrutable to my parents and some former lacrosse team members. Now to school and how it pressures me. First off, i always try to keep my grades up by doing homework. Comprehension is not my strength, so that seems to make me slower and less accurate in reading, which is in about every subject. It is pretty abdominal. Also, in school i try to be the greatest in every subject, but there are so many kids that are smarter than me. It is impossible to do something like this in competition to all these staright A people. So now you know what things pressure me most as a growing teenager and adolescent to tackle the enigmas of life.
ReplyDelete-LAUREN TOCCI
a) the amount of work put on a student can cause pressure.
ReplyDeleteb) as friends, drama and risky temptations such as alcohol and drugs can lead into peer pressure.
c) in my family, mainly holidays bring the most pressure to the family.
Dealing with pressures can be very difficult. As a student, to avoid pressure I usually go to my mom or dad for help with a subject or just a question about a teacher. Second, as a friend, you really have to know who your true friends are, before the false friends suck you into pear pressure. Also, with my family, we work together to get through the hard pressure being put on us.
As an eighth grader student not even a quarter of the way through life, I believe that the way my friends, my family and I deal with pressure is a healthy, easy way to get past things. Also ignoring pear pressure and normal pressure its self is just one way to keep a life more positive and adventurous.
Jodi (:
As a student there is an abundance of stress on me. Every time I turn my back, another grade has gone by and I get closer and closer to my future, and bigger decisions. I am very attentive to my grades and if by chance I mess up, I am pressured into thinking it's the end of the world. I don't know if there is such a thing but I am pressured with involuntary peer pressure. Sometimes I will fall behind my friends in school, and their grades pressure me into worring about my own grades. I don't feel much pressure in being a daughter because a quantity of that pressure falls under my schoolwork. However, I feel the most pressure in sports. It's like you are walking on a tightrope, you fall off with one mistake. I get extremely scared to make that consequencial mistake because I don't want to mess up. There is always the voice in the back of my mind telling me that I can't do it. Between the pure fear of mistakes and failure, there is the pressure to please my parents and coaches, and most of the time I'm not pleasing myself. I get too overworked with the pressure of meeting everyone else's expectations that I forget to have fun and am too hard on myself. This is where pressure is the worst in my opinion. In sports or anything else in life, if you aren't pleasing yourself, life is pointless. Although pressure makes you forget that. Lastly, I surround myself with people who will help me grow into a better person. I am not pressured into drugs, drinking, or smoking. If I was going to smoke, my friends wouldn't just tell me not to, they would take the cigarette from me and force me not to. I am very lucky to have such amazing influences around me. They pressure me in a postive way. Who influences you?
ReplyDelete-Rachel
I think that peer pressure and pressure in general comes from your friends and people you live with or work with. For example people are always pressured to dress a certain way or play certain games or say certain things and in the end it's really just peopel changing themselves to meet someone else's stupid and pointless expectations. For example, as a student, I am pressured to be getting good grades and meet the "exoectations" of my peers. Frankly, I don't really try all to terribly hard to meet those expectations which is why some of the times I don't. Also as a friend, I have to do some things I might not want to do at the time. Maybe not bad or dangerous things. It might just be my friend wants me to stay instide when we hang out and I want to go outside so I end up having to stay inside. That's not so much pressure as having to meet others' expectations to get along. Lastly, I think that the pressures of being a son are pretty unbarable sometimes. My parents are always bothering me about homework, and tests coming up, and sports, and a million other things that are just as annoying. Yeah, it's there job but still. There is a point where you should lay off a little bit. All in all I think that pressure comes from everywhere and everyone. Trying to meet their expectations or get along. But I think the person who's expectations you are trying to meet is yourself. You try to be better to fit in but half the time you already do fit in but still feal the need to be better. Also, I completely agree with what JT said.
ReplyDelete~Evan MacDougall~
Peer pressure is one thing that can suck our lives up to nothing.Peer pressure can completely change your life in school and at home.
ReplyDeleteThe pressure that I feel as a student is to always listen, keep your grades up and study.I think there should be 1 day of the school year that we can all just relax, and then we get back the next day.
The pressure I feel as a friend is to always have good advice when they need it, but what I ask myself every time i give my advice I just wanna say wheres your advice when I need it most.Like ope arms , My arms will always be open, but when I need open arms I don't know where to turn.
The pressure I feel as a daughter is to do my chores, do as I am told, and to be as best as I can be, but sometimes there are days when I'm just out of it and that's when you get caught., and the next thing you know your grounded for a week.
The way I take this is I breathe and keep a serious face. Then I do as I'm told and life goes on.
Brooke P.
Its funny, i don't really feel peer pressure, or not as much social pressure. The one pressure i really feel pressure from my parents. Like i love my parents i do, i am very grateful of all they do for me. But i often feel as if the way they get on me or ride me so hard about my school work or i always have to do my school work THEIR way. not MY way. ill be the first to admit that im not the sharpest tool in the shed but that doesn't mean i do try. I think my parents know that i try but like they just ride me about school, and like all i want ot do is prove to them that i can do it, i can do all the work, and i can get good grades like everybody else. i just want to make them proud but i sometimes feel like i let them down... it sucks.
ReplyDeleteVaughn B.
Peer pressure is delt with a lot in our adolescence time. We need to know it when we see it, and how to avoid it. Fortunetly for me i havent delt with any peer pressure that was to serious. Peer pressure as a student is hard to deal with. Its either pay attention, or goof off. Now which sounds like more fun? Its the difference of gettin an A or a D. Unfortunetly I fall for this peer pressure... Alot. It may be the easiest to fall for. If you have trouble with this like me just think of what your parents would want you to do. Next I dont feel that much peer pressure with my friends. We dont do dumb stuff that gets us in trouble. Let me rephrase that. We dont do stuff that gets us into trouble. So I havent delt with that yet, but when i do all get back to all of you. i have a lot of pressure at home. One reason is grades. My parents think im so smart, but im not. They think to much of me. My sister on the other hand. For those of you who dont know her shes a senior probibly going to a great college next year. She gets great grades, and is like the star of the family. She does so well, and my pasrents expect the same grades as she gets. Un fortunetly i do bad in school, and my parents try so hard to get me to do better. I just cant. I'm supposed to end up just like her to get into a good school, and make a lot of money with whatever i do for a living. Try carrying that weight on your shoulders. I dont know how to avoid this pressure, and i dont think their is a way either. i'm just going to have to fight through it and hope for the best.
ReplyDelete-Ian Danger Rattigan
Pressure is everywhere. Pressure affects everyone. It can either keep you organized and going in the right direction, or it can tear you apart piece by piece. Either way, it cannot be escaped.
ReplyDeleteI believe that I am pressured mainly not by my parents, my teachers, or my friends, but by myself. To be satisfied in life, I need to force myself to be more, to be the best. My greatest fear in life has never been things like monsters or spiders. No, it is regret that frightens me. It has always been my greatest will to regret nothing. But of course, that is impossible. So, instead I pressure myself to feel the least pain or regret as possible. This force sometimes molds me into someone who I'm actually not.
I often wish that I could do away with it all and live a life without fear, pain, regret, or any pressure. Sometimes I'd rather just relax and enjoy what I have. But then again, I might regret doing that....
:/
-Curtis
Do you guys feel there is more pressure from parents or friends?
ReplyDeleteTori-Great Job once again.
ReplyDeleteIan-you need to write your own legacy.
Rachel-You have to allow yourself room for failure
Angel-I see what you wrote, but know that the people of this school genuinely care about you.
I feel that their is more pressure from my parents because they are constantly bugging me about my grades and how many penaltys i got in the last lacrosse game. They are always telling me what to do and what not to do before i get to tell my half of the story. My friends do the opposite they support me in all the things I do. With them I fell i am rarely pressured because if I have a different opinion I get to have to tell a reason because there are no first judgments on who is older, wiser, smarter, or better. We all understand each other one way or another.
ReplyDeletebryan regn
Peer pressure is a common problem in any place you go to. As a student there is a lot of pressure to get good grades and a good reputation. As a friend there is peer pressure to do activities in school, and out of school. As a son, i feel many responsibilities such as getting good grades, being the smarter one in a situation, and being well mannered. I am a very mechanically inclined kid, therefore math and most sciences are come easier to me than s.s. and language arts. By saying "being the smarter one in a situation", I mean knowing when to walk away if something gets heated an when not to. In my opinion, I am a very well rounded person.
ReplyDeleteSean Kennedy
Pressure is the effect of quite a lot of things, there's sports, schoolwork, nagging parents, annoying siblings, and of course friends. Overall, for me, the biggest pressure is rising up to my parents expectations. My parents want me to be the best i can be but sometimes i think they use their imganiations a little to much. For example, they expect me to get straight As every single marking peroid; that's a large changelle at times. Schoolwork brings alot of diffculties into the picture, try balancing that with sports and after-school activities. It's not easy. I rarely have time for my friends anymore and when i am by them i have the pressure of making sure i don't mess anything up. Being a teenager is complex; It has its ups and downs. Pressure really effects you but the way i deal with it is not harmful. So i guess in a way you could say i'm doing a pretty good job of becoming an adult like the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteKristen D
Mr. G
ReplyDeleteI think that there is more pressure from friends. Like I said friends count on you to have all the answers at the right time,and the right place.To always be on the go, and on top of everything, every day. But your parents pressure is totally different, parent related pressure is mainly about school,home and to listen to everything your told. So all in all I think Friends hold a greater amount of pressure.
Brooke Petagno :)
Parents.
ReplyDeleteWho influences me? For me i find it being more of who dosent influence me. If you take the time to look at someone individually you'll realize that everybody has something amazing to give, I think its important to realize the things people have to give. Like MLK, a man who was gifted in ways of persuading people and stand up for what he truly knows it right. Or someone not quite as know, an average student. You see, i think that its not a persons fault for not showing or using his talent... maybe its the persons fault who didn't take the time to realize the talent just waiting to be discovered within every human being. So take the time to realize everybody's true gifts, the out come could possibly make our world a better place for all.
Vaughn Butler
All types of pressures are around us, one being from school. Always hasving to get straight A's is one of the many pressures encountered during school. This marking period, I had to get atleast two A's and two B's to play lacrosse in the spring. If I did worse, bad things would happen. This put a lot of excess pressure on me, and this makes me really want to work hard. Sometimes I feel this helps me do better, but if I get a bad grade on a test, it is always "Give me your phone!! Until you do better, you won't get it back!"
ReplyDeleteFriends are always pressuring you to do things, good or bad. It could be wanting to come over, but your mom said no, or doing something you know is wrong, but since everyone else did it, you think it is okay. This isn't always the right decision. Sometimes, it seems like it is the only thing you can do, and that if you don't they won't be your friend anymore. But, if you think about it, if this friend was wanting to do something that they know they shouldn't, you probably shouldn't be hanging out with them anyway.
As an only child, I have all the pressure from both of my parents. This is a lot of things to always have in the back of your head. I'm not trying to say that people with siblings don't have pressures, but sometimes I feel that I have more.
~Julia Ferrante(:~
Peer pressure is heard somewhere around the world every second of everyday. Once I hear this word its like my heart skips a beat as the world slowly stops. Then in a second reality comes back and now its like a state test. It decides your future. One wrong answer and you could be getting a C instead of a B. When you choose that answer your heart starts beating faster and faster, the world is rushing you like a rollarcoaster. Then every second is like an hour and before you realize it your in your bed looking up at the cieling asking," Did i make the right choice?"
ReplyDeleteHow do I handle peer pressure? I think and then express it through the magic of music or drawings. Drawing has gotten me through a lot. Its gotten me through hours thinking of new ideas. My imagination might just be the best thing I have. My mind helps me stay ambitious so someday I can reach my future. My imagination tells me when to say no in a life saving situation.
Family peer pressure is the worst to me. I had to make many choices to get to where I am today. I hope that everyday I'm making those right choices. I want to be on the right path. When family peer pressure comes into your life its like a whole new world. You see your family everyday and when they want you to do something, its like looking at an air bubble full of pressure.
Friend pressure is very different. There are the friends that love you and care about you. Then there are the ones that are using you just to end up decieving you. Your real friends will help you up if you have fallen into a bad path but will help you up. Then fake ones will let you fall. The fake will just find another host. Real friends will just always be there for you, to help you up, while the fake will be the ones to trip you and watch you fall.
Peer pressure is a daily thing. Kids around the world give into pressure. I haven't gotten into it yet but someday I know that day will come. The day I have a choice to say,"yes," or,"no."
*Britt N.*
Julia,
ReplyDeleteDo you think because you are the only child that your parents "put all their eggs in one basket"?
Pressure can be in many different forms. From a student's point of view the probably number one pressure that they have battled with, is peer pressure. As a student the pressure on me is to keep my grades up. With my previous grades, teachers know what kind of student I am so if I get a bad grade they think something is up. Even though friends are supposed to be by your side helping you make the right choices, they may not always be. Your friend may want you to do drugs or drink with them and they threaten you if you don't do it with them. Whether bad pressures or good pressures friends expect you to go with the flow and follow everyone else. All the time friends are putting their own friends to the test to see how well they can handle pressure, and not even know it. Nevertheless I faced friend problems through my life, I just be the stronger and better person and just ignore the pressure. Parents always are bragging about how admirable their child is. Behind the scenes, parents could be pressuring their child to get better grades, to always practice so they become perfect, and even just to be a replica of them self. For me my parents don’t pressure me to be a replica of them self because they know I would never do that. Pressure is a way to life that everyone will go through, it’s just a matter of time of when it will happen and how much it will affect you.
ReplyDeleteNicole F.
Peer presure. Where is the main target? High School. Luck for me I am not yet there... but i soon will be. The closest to thing to peer presure in my life are simply presures.They mainly turn up in school. It is the intence force of grades while staying calm cool and colected. Under the clock all day, trying my best in almost every subject. Pushing thought everyday struggles for what? The satisfaction of others? No. I do this for my self. For my future. Which, in the long run, possibly could benifit others. If i keep at this, it could benifit me in the up and coming presures of high school.
ReplyDelete- Shae M.
If you tried to ask all 108 students about their pressures you will probably get around 10 different answers. This is because although everyone has different situations, it still turns out to be the same problems in some way, shape, or form. I feel that the pressures of a student and as a son are basically the same: everyone just wants you to do well and succeed. The pressure as a friend can be a little bit different. The way I look at it, it depends upon two factors, who your friends are and what the pressure is about. If you are friends with people who get in trouble, or the socially elite (see: http://crispyporkrinds.blogspot.com/2011/01/popularity_25.html ), it will probably be negative pressure, telling you to do bad things. When you are friends with “non-trouble makers” their advice will probably be good, trying to be helpful. No matter how much pressure you get the most important thing to remember is that the final decision is yours, and no one should make it for you. You can let pressure sway you off the road, but no matter what you are still behind the wheel, in control, of your decisions.
ReplyDelete-Adam Feldscher
I face tons of pressure all the time, as im sure everyone does. It's almost like gravity; it weighs you down and it's almost constant. Some pressure happens much, you almost get used to it. In my life, I deal with pressure from school, family, friends, sports, and myself.
ReplyDeleteAs a student, grades are one of the biggest pressures on me, and that's because of my own goals. I set the bar high for myself, and I can't suddenly drop the pace.
As far as family, they're very supportive, and the only pressure I get from them is a nudge to keep doing the best I can.
With friends, there's pressure there too, mostly without them realizing it. Not all of it is bad, like getting me to try new things. Some of it I do to MY friends without even thinking about it! (never any bad pressure though :P) The one pressure I hear most from my friends has to be, "C'mon, please!" :)
One of the last major areas I really get pressure from is sports. When I'm on the softball field, I pressure myself a lot, and work super hard to get to where I want to be as an athlete. Let's face it, I'm not a superstar, but I'm ready to run ten miles a day to get as close as as I can be. Coaches, team-mates, and my parents can all pressure me through sports as well, but I know they only want to help when they do this, so I just try and work off of their advice to improve myself.
Basically, pressure is the standards you want and other people want from you. To deal with it, you have to really focus on the most important one; your own. People can pressure you for good and bad, and I just try my best to be happy with myself and grow from other people's advice and criticism as best as i can. :D
-Emily Randolph
(P.S. Hope nobody has too much pressure from anyone.)
It's a little off topic, but as far as the Thought of the Day, I have no idea how non-stick coating sticks to frying pans. But I'm going to find out.
ReplyDelete"Non-stick was now applied in coats, with the bottom coat containing the sticky additive that held to both the metal pan and the non-stick molecules. A coat of non-sticky non-stick went over that, non-stick and stick clinging together lovingly. A final non-stick layer, spiked with teensy bits of ceramic or other tougheners, protected the softer guts."
-http://www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/skinnyon970606/skinny1.html
This doesn't need to be posted, but I didnt really know where to put it. :)
-Emily R.
Pressure is felt by everyone, no matter in what way. As a student, son, and friend I feel no pressure at all. I can make my own decisions with my own judgement, and knoow that I wasn't pressured at all. I think if I ever was pressured, I would make my own decisions, and not have decisions made for me. Peer pressure ia an excuse for people to say they aren't capable of making their own decisions. They simply agree with their friends because the peersonn thinks their reasons for the decision are stupid. I'm glad I have no pressure in my life, and I hope I never will.
ReplyDeleteAlex J.
Peer pressure. those two words alone could jump to my mind as many things and meanings. my whole life ive faced easy and difficult types of peer pressure. I get peer pressure now! like my friends will say come on alyssa go to the dance. but, honostly i dont want to go to a dance. i dont need a boy coming up to me and asking me if i want to dance. thats mainly the reason people go. to either be with there friends or dance wit a boy. peer pressure is one of the hardest things to reject! honostly. i use to be pressured bad in my old school about the worst thing...relationships!!! not quite my path to take right now. whats he gonna do pick me up wit his bycicle and head for a date at mickey ds!!! im mean come on really! kids my age dont even know what a relationship truly is. you can say you do but YOU DONT!!!!! you think relationships are about cuddling or makin out, or hugging at the bus everyday! your pretty much hugging someone you like not someone your in a relationship with. a relationship is when you are mature and meet someone that you risk taking those small and big steps with. look deep inside you, are you really ready to start dating at the age you are now..? boys, how will you pretect her? how will you put a roof over her head or take care of her needs if...your still dependent on your parents? think about that. girls, how will you cook or clean for him or take care of the kids or even have kids at such a young age while you are also still dependent on your parents too? does anyone ever think of these huge things. why start now when you can grow up, and find that special one then. no one at this young age even knows who they really are. people always thought i was wierd and crazy for not wanting a relationship or even a boyfriend. but i say this to them everytime...i dont need one. i dont have one i..dont..NEED one!!!! you know my father hes a good example of peer pressure! growing up my whole life my dad had a problem that made life hard for my mama n my big sis and i. he was well use to be an alcoholic. now, he wasnt a very nice alcoholic and when drinking its like he didnt knw when to stop. he would hang with his friends and i could see him peer pressuring them to drink. next thing you knw...everyone was either drunk or almost. i always remember goin to the parties with my dad to see my friends and when we get to the place and he grabs a beer i always would say to him to please dont drink to much and all hed say is i knw wat im doing. i grew up my whole life being called stupid or ugly or dumb alll the negatve words you can think of. sometimes it would even b alittle more then verbal. my dad is a good man in his heart hes good. but once the alcohol hits his blood its like he becomes a switch personality. thats why my parents divorced. my mama couldnt take it anymore. my dad doesnt drink anymore and hasnt for 7 long months. but tht is the reason why i am the way i am. why im so guarded with a mask of happiness when theres really sadeness hidden under. i can not stand being call negative things because it makes me think of the past, and thinking of the past just stabs me inside. when people call me and im sorry for my language but when people call me a dip shit or a dumb F or an idiot PEOPLE REALLY NEED TO THINK BEFORE THEY SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT BECAUSE IT HURTS!!!!! it hurts really bad! it may not hurt people as bad as it does me but growing up being called stuff like that and then hoping to come to school to have relief from home but then the same thing happens at school.do people even know how hard that is! you knw i wake up every single morning promising myself that i wont take any crap. but once im called retarded or idiot all tht goes through in my mind is memories. when youve lived a life like this peer pressure just becomes a small problem to you. dont be affraid to stand up for yourself and learn how to use that two letter word no! and some things will seem to be a bit easier for you.
ReplyDeleteby:Alyssa H
WOW!
ReplyDeleteLove your honesty and willingness to share.
Try not to put such pressure on yourselves.
I, as an adult, still put pressure on myself and need to realize that somethings are out of my control.
Mrs. C.
Alyssa,
ReplyDeleteI'm sad to say that I, of all people, did that to you as well. Everytime we would call each other an idiot or the other various names, you most likely know what I'm talking about, I had no idea how much that little word could hurt you that much. I'm sorry you had to feel that way.
-Your friend
As a student I feel pressured everyday. Mainly to do well in school. I feel as if I am peer pressured, because I always try to do my best to keep up with all of my classmates. I noticed that if I don't work hard, then I do poorly on a test. I never what to do bad on a test for many reasons. The reason regaurding peer pressure is that, if a friend asks me how well I did I am ashamed to tell them my low score. Therefore I try my hardest, and I belive that is the best way to handle the problem.
ReplyDeleteAs a friend I also peer pressured sometimes to go with the flow an do what others do. Lots of times people say, go with the flow, it will be easier on yourself. I think what people mean sometimes it is just easier to do what others what to do, which is true, it is easier. However sometimes it is harder on yourself, because you don't get to do what you want to do and you will never have fun. I follow my friends a lot, just like most people, but not all the time. Sometimes you just have to do what you wnat to do.
-Alexa Chaloupka