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Indy,
Thanks for the heads-up on the book. It looks good and I'll be ordering it.
As my 11-year old son gets more into middle school, I'm becoming more
concerned about peer pressure. Right now it seems to be just about his
hair, which, he informed me this morning, has to be just right, or his
friends will tell him he looks dorky. I replied, with the infinite patience
I possess when we needed to leave the house 5 minutes ago (!), that maybe he needed to get new friends, who weren't so concerned about how he looks. Wrong!! (Yes, I knew that the instant the words were out of my mouth.) We'll be addressing the issue more now that we've both calmed down - and I'd be interested in any tips in dealing with the whole peer pressure/friends thing. He is a very likeable kid, both kids and adults gravitate to him without him being other than who he naturally is - but I see this desperate need for acceptance at any cost. I know part of it is the age, but I do want him to have a sense of his ok-ness that he can hold no matter what his friends say or do. Ideas?
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