Childhood

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

15. Thank you!
Mariel Tiquio