Everyone will experience peer pressure at some point in their lives if they haven’t already. While sometimes there is positive peer pressure, where someone influences you to do something good (like study for a test, go on a walk, or take care of yourself), the peer pressure we will cover today is negative peer pressure. This is when someone tries to get them to do something that is not beneficial or helpful. Sometimes, it's because they don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings, sometimes there is intimidation involved, and sometimes it’s because they don’t know how to say “NO!”

According to the Kids Health Organization, these are some of the main questions that students have in relation to positive and negative Peer Pressure:

Introduction

Homeschool critics sometimes worry about the social-emotional development of online learners. However, modern online education provides many opportunities for social development, from group video sessions to local sports, church, or community clubs. The flexibility of online learning can enrich students’ social networks, while also creating a supportive environment for social-emotional growth guided by parents.  In this blog, we will explore how online education supports social-emotional learning (SEL) and equip parents with strategies—like movement, visualization, and advanced emotional therapies— to address student outbursts, focus challenges, difficulty sitting still, and optimize brain development to be able to visualize complex information more quickly. The ultimate goal of this blog is to support parents with key strategies that are aligned with biblical foundations and stimulate their students' learning so they mature into their unique persons in God’s image.

In online school settings, the online teacher and student are separated from one another by distance and often by time, so knowing and understanding online students is an important factor in building teacher-student relationships.¹ Research suggests that online students are successful if they respond to three different types of learner interactions: (1) learner-to-content (appropriateness of the course material and delivery), (2) learner-to-instructor (access and support), and (3) learner-to-learner (procedures for dialogue).² Watson et al. (2014)³ noted that practical consideration of the role of a teacher in an online classroom similar to that of a traditional face-to-face classroom is important to ensure student success.