Overcoming peer pressure is a matter of gaining confidence in oneself and Tutors from England have helped many teenagers in this respect. Confident teenagers do not give in to peer pressure and do something they know they should not be doing. In order to feel liked, they end up stressed out because they are going against their better judgement. They question the morals and behaviour they learned growing up.

Slowly a full-time tutor gains his pupil’s confidence; very often there is outright hostility to start with; the pupil does not want a tutor; her father has foisted one on her; it is tough for a tutor to have to overcome this initial hostility, but he will do so. Slowly the pupil will come to respect him and admire him; they will become great friends; her confidence grows. 

The tutor explains that in fact his pupil is perfectly capable of making up his or her own mind as to whether they do something or not; they do not need to join in doing things just for the sake of winning someone’s favour or in order to avoid disfavour. His pupil must make up her own mind and, thanks to the tutor, now has sufficient confidence to do so. But building up confidence in his pupil takes time and the tutor’s job is to slowly work at it; sports help – playing squash is a good medium; first of all, anybody can play it – it does not require any natural ability. As his pupil improves he or she gains confidence and this influences their feelings about the rest of their life. They gain the confidence to make up their own minds as to what they should do and not succumb to the pressure of their peers.