When we think of peer pressure, we often think of teenagers. This is the lifestage when peer pressure is apparently most obvious. But anyone who has kids at school will know that Parent Peer Pressure is just as pervasive and potentially destructive amongst adults. The pressure to conform to other people’s standards raises its heads throughout our lives, in private and professional areas of our lives, and even in our parenting.
An author, Roselind Wiseman, has written about the phenomenon of parenting pressure in a new book, Queen Bees and Kingpin Dads (get it at kalahari.net or Amazon.com).
You can read an interview with the author here.
Peer Pressure
