PEER INFLUENCE; WHY PEERS CAN MAKE GOOD ROLE MODELS TOO
When you ask around among most young people, their role models are mostly filthy rich celebrities especially musicians, some will say influential people like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. Mother Teresa etc. only a few like I will mention family members and some friends. But over the course of my social life, I have realized that indeed peers can also make good role models. I know in the past peer influence has been linked to inappropriate behavior such as doing drugs, truancy, and much other bad stuff but it’s high time we started looking for role models in our immediate environment. Am not insinuating that your celebrity or influential leader you have for a role model is not good enough. No. In fact, they are the best. My argument is, having someone you interact with daily, someone you know their struggle and live in it too for a role model can be more motivating than someone who probably grew up in a very different environment and times. Very few people out there can...