Your daughter's peers are very important to her. She wants to have a sense of belonging and importance and fit in with her classmates. To become an independent adult — in the not-too-distant future — she is supposed to transfer her allegiance from her parents to her peers, a process that can take years. That is the desired development in your daughter and you welcome it. But what if her peers are a bad influence on her and get in the way of her progress?

