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PEER PRESSURE “Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”                                                                               ― Shannon L. Alder          Humans tend to imitate habits, ideas and behaviours from others. While parents are really influential in their kids childhood, it is not the same case as they grow up. As time passes, friends or peers tend to influence each other. This influence is what we call as peer pressure.                                As per the Wikipedia, peer pressure is defined as the direct influence on people by peers, or the effect on an individual who gets encouraged to follow their peers by changing their attitudes, values or behaviours to conform to those of the influencing group or individual. This can have either a positive or negative impact in one’s life. According to a publication on peer pressure by Parent Further, only 10 percent of teenager