The Importance of Peers in Children: CFS-494-Parenting Strategies.

During the adolescent years peers are extremely important because they need their peer's guidance for everything. All adolescents want to be like their peers because it is the peers that set the style and all children want to look good in their peer's eyes. The number one importance is communication. There are many ways that parents can use to communicate with their children such as: playing psychological roles, always start the sentence with a question …

…and my parents thought that was plenty of social time through the week, but on the weekends I could spent time with my friends depending on the terms that my parents set for me would depend on how much time that I would spend with my friends. I feel 16 or 17 is a good age to start dating because they need to be mature enough for the situations that are going to be presented to them.