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What Do You Do About the Bad Peers Who Are Instrumental in Your difficult child's Descent?
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<blockquote data-quote="mrsammler" data-source="post: 457608"><p>A kid's choice of peers is such a dicey thing. You'd like to think it's all about self-esteem, etc, but luck plays a large role as well. I moved from southern CA to a small southern town in NC the summer before 9th grade, and because I didn't know anyone, I hit the books and became an outstanding student. Eventually I made friends with a kid who was deeply into tennis, so I became a tennis addict too, and spent almost all of my free time playing or practicing it throughout high school. So my high school experience was marked primarily by being a top student and a top varsity athlete. In college, however, I played varsity tennis and fell in with the tennis player fraternity, and they were mostly druggies, so I gradually became a druggy too, which led to a couple of years of druggy loserdom before I dropped out, enlisted in the army, and got my life back together. </p><p></p><p>You see my point: peer selection, and its positive or negative effect upon a kid, is a pretty dicey matter. Most good kids get lucky--well, like the rest of us, they make their luck, and good habits generate good "luck." The opposite happens with "bad" kids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrsammler, post: 457608"] A kid's choice of peers is such a dicey thing. You'd like to think it's all about self-esteem, etc, but luck plays a large role as well. I moved from southern CA to a small southern town in NC the summer before 9th grade, and because I didn't know anyone, I hit the books and became an outstanding student. Eventually I made friends with a kid who was deeply into tennis, so I became a tennis addict too, and spent almost all of my free time playing or practicing it throughout high school. So my high school experience was marked primarily by being a top student and a top varsity athlete. In college, however, I played varsity tennis and fell in with the tennis player fraternity, and they were mostly druggies, so I gradually became a druggy too, which led to a couple of years of druggy loserdom before I dropped out, enlisted in the army, and got my life back together. You see my point: peer selection, and its positive or negative effect upon a kid, is a pretty dicey matter. Most good kids get lucky--well, like the rest of us, they make their luck, and good habits generate good "luck." The opposite happens with "bad" kids. [/QUOTE]
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