"Now!" whispered Suki. "Quick, while the clerk's not looking."
Heart pounding, Leah leaned against the store's unattended makeup display and slid two tubes of lipstick into her purse. She looked bored and detached as she followed her friends Suki and Jill out of the store, but inside she felt panicked.
"I can't believe you made me do that," Leah wailed.
"Relax," said Jill. "Everybody does it sometimes. And we didn't make you do it."
She said nothing, but Leah knew she wouldn't have done that on her own. She'd just had a big dose of peer pressure.
http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/friends/peer_pressure.html
What other kinds of things can friends influence you to do?
Can friends have a positive influence on you?
Think about your own friends, do they help you make good choices?
Are you helping others to make good choices in their life?
Think of an example of how your friends (or someone else in your life) have helped you make a good choice.
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