PEER INFLUENCE -SCENARIOS, CHOICES & SAFETY

RULES SHEET

SCENARIOS

Think about the following scenarios:

1. A friend dares you to write something insulting about a teacher on

the whiteboard and calls you a chicken because you don’t want to
do it. You know this will get you into trouble and you actually like

this teacher. What would you do?

2. You are out playing with your friends when one of them finds an
old lighter lying on the street. The lighter still works. They dare you

to set fire to an old bush. What do you do?

3. An older boy asks you to hold a bag for him while he goes into a
shop. What do you do?

4. A girl at school tells you another girl likes you and

you should go over and kiss her. You like the girl
she is talking about too. What would you do?

5. It is the night before an exam and you are busy revising. All your
friends are going out and they want you to come with them. You
know they will call you a swot and ridicule you if you refuse, but
this exam is really important to you. What would you do?
CHOICES
 WAYS OF SAYING NO TO PEER INFLUENCE:

1). Say you’re not going to do something you don’t want to.

2). Recognise when you feel uncomfortable and talk about

something else

3). Say you don’t want you or your friend

to get in trouble
4). If your friends are slagging someone else

off say something good

about the other person.

5). Ignore what other people say.

6). Say you are in a hurry.

7). Make a joke about how you’re on doctors

orders to stay away from trouble.

8). Choose friends who will protect you.

9). Remind people about the trouble

they caused for you before and say no .

 10). Say true friends

don’t put me under pressure.

11). Use the IF BUDS idea (I FEEL BECAUSE U DID/ SAID) to say
what you need to.

I’M
EXAMPLE: FEELING

BECAUSE

DID

SAID

!!!##!#!!
PRACTICE USING ‘IFBUDS’

I’m

…………………………..

Because

You

…………………………..

Then leave the other person to think about that.

SAFETY RULES

THE FOUR MAIN SAFETY RULES

1) WE EACH BELONG TO OURSELVES

2) SOME THINGS ARE NOT A CHOICE

BUT THESE ARE ONLY WHEN WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT
HEALTH AND SAFETY

3) PROBLEMS SHOULD NOT BE SECRETS

4) KEEP TELLING UNTIL YOU GET

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