BURLINGTON — Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if I can decompress some of their concerns and provide some information ...

Jefferson Middle School students were recently trained in how to conduct peer mediation sessions with Peaceful Schools, a Syracuse organization which helps to train students in restorative practices.

Aspen Middle School will implement a peer-to-peer approach to mental health support this spring, building on a program first established in the high school three years ago. Hope Squad, a national ...

When I was a child, one of the things that upset me the most was watching friends be mean to other kids—whether it was a classmate they didn’t like or someone who was just going about their day being ...

Peer pressure insidiously shapes the lives of young people but it is not always the dramatic, negative influence that we imagine from cautionary tales. Sometimes, peer pressure is simply passing on a ...