Adolescent Peer Groups

In class the other day we watched two films “Are You Popular” and “How To Be Popular”. These films were about adolescent peer groups and how to be popular within your peer group. These films were funny, especially “Are you Popular”, because it was made in 1947 and it had different values than today, but never the less it still was relevant for today’s peer groups. “How To Be Popular” was a little naive, but I think it is really related to today’s peer groups, as well. These films seemed silly and funny to me, but still related to how important peer groups are to adolescents. It wasn’t too long ago that I was in middle school and high school and went through these adolescent experiences. Being left out, wearing the right things, being or not being invited to parties, having the “right” friends was very important to me. You feel very isolated if you are not in a peer group and feel very alone. Parents and teachers need to understand that adolescent peer groups are very important to teenagers and part of them growing up. They are at school more than they are at home, so teenager’s peer groups become more important to them and influence them more than their families. If you are not included in a peer group school can be incredibly lonely. Unfortunately this is a fade that teenagers go through, as my mom use to say all the time “growing up is hard”.



These pictures are of my friends and I. Some of these friends were not my friends at some point in my life, because of adolescent arguments.

This is a picture of my graduating class, that I grew up with from grades 6-12. These are the people I had to try to fit in with through my adlescent years.