What youths need to realize is that while their peers might be help them in schoolwork, assist in developing their talents, and give them support and motivation to succeed, there are peers that will influence them to do things that will harm them, like smoking, missing school or shoplifting. ... The generation gap is whereby parents and teens have different thinking about things - from clothes and music preference, to values and beliefs. Many parents lose influence on their teens and teens value peer opinions above parents influence. ...

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