If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by th...e adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We often overestimate the influence of a peer group on our teenager. While the peer group is most influential in matters of taste ...and preference, we parents are most influential in more abiding matters of standards, beliefs, and values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotion...al focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you think about it, a peer group is nothing but an empathic envelope without adults around. It has the same three characteristi...cs of a family. It has its own type of empathy ("We understand you, even if no one else does."); it has clear expectations ("Break rules and you're out."); and it offers kids a chance to spend time with one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember that the peer group is important to young adolescents, and there's nothing wrong with that. Parents are often just as imp...ortant, however. Don't give up on the idea that you can make a difference.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My consciousness-raising group is still going on. Every Monday night it meets, somewhere in Greenwich Village, and it drinks a lot... of red wine and eats a lot of cheese. A friend of mine who is in it tells me that at the last meeting, each of the women took her turn to explain, in considerable detail, what she was planning to stuff her Thanksgiving turkey with. I no longer go to the group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay, I'm going to get your money for you. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that ph...one, you know what's going to happen to you? Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What? Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today's social change is to begin to perce...ive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all my prosecutors ... not one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case t...o the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »