Is peer pressure to drink still a thing?

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Anonymous wrote:Per my teen DD, not a thing.

Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Is there still peer pressure to drink in high school or like other culture shifts, is environment now drink if want to or don’t and can be at same parties? Many years ago it was drink or get out. Curious how teens approach drink v don’t drink today. Guess while I am at it, are weed gummies now just main table option at parties like chips and guac v super secret main event at end of a night for a select few?

Not so much as the peer pressure to do weed, ecstasy, Ozempic, and other drugs.

Ozempic? lol. “Johnny, take this or else you won’t be cool and have constipation like the rest of us!!!”

Boys usually don't need to try to be thin at that age silly.

1 out of 5 male teens is overweight. That number isn’t decreasing.

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Anonymous wrote:A little maybe? I see some curiosity. But it is nothing like the social Gen X used (and some continue to use!)

This is what I see as well. My DD is not a drinker but will have a drink with us or if we are traveling to a country where she can do it legally. Some of her friends drink quite a lot but, other than "how come you're not drinking" (and she answers), they drop it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m experiencing a strange thing where my 40 something peers are exerting peer pressure on each other to drink and meanwhile the teenagers are very low-key and let each other do their thing. I didn’t see that coming.

Interesting. The last time I got together with mom friends, all of us in our 40s and 50s, there were definite comments towards people who didn’t drink or even ones who didn’t have a second drink.

My kids say no one cares.

So true about women in their 40s-50s, they don’t accept when someone won’t drink. Yet young adults are perfectly fine with it.

I've found this, too. I think the other moms feel judged or guilty when someone turns down alcohol.

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Anonymous wrote:My high schoolers say peers don't care - some drink & some don't, but most in the "party crowd" who are throwing & invited to most parties are generally drinkers. If someone is a non-drinker in this crowd, they tend to have a great personality, be an athlete & well-liked.

I mean, that's the way it's always been.

No one REALLY cares, but sometimes you convince yourself they do.

This.
The whole peer pressure thing is a boomer mentality they made up during the boogeyman days of Nancy Reagan "just say no" propaganda and never really happened.

Most of the middle age people now who think they were "pressured" at a party as a kid were probably just offered a drink or joint and refused and that was it, but they built it up in their mind that they were "weird" or ostracized simply for refusing.

Most of the popular kids partake of drink and drugs at some point, but they also learn moderation and when to partake, thereby never becoming known as one of the stoners or drunks of the school.

Most of the introverted kids who never partake never learned moderation and are still uptight and judgmental as adults, and were often the wallflowers of the school.

Kids and teens are hyper perceptive and angsty until they learn not to be.

You grew up watching too many teen movies.

Newsflash: not everything is black and white

Yeah, this sounds like American Pie.

When America was still great.