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In a conversation with my son today, I actually heard myself utter the words..."Just because all your friends are doing it doesent mean its right...if all of your friends were jumping off of a bridge, would you?" and in his response (he's nine) " Yeah...If I had your BASE rig on...."
One one hand I wanted to kill him, and one the other (which won I might add) we went and watched some more BASE videos...........
No moral just a story.

I have a story along the same lines. My 8 year old daughter got in trouble because one of her little friends did something bad in school and egged my daughter on to do the same which she did. They were both caught.

The teacher asked why my daughter imitated her friend and she could not find a reply (peer pressure situation of just trying to fit in). When the teacher asked if her friend jumped off a bridge, would you follow her? Without hesitation, my daughter fires off "My Daddy jumps off bridges!"

Naturally, the teacher was not amused with this left field comment and scolded her for lying even though she tried adamantally to convince the adult with "But he does, he really does."

The next parent teacher conference was quite interesting and we had a good laugh.

Been there twice