PEER PRESSURE
Peer pressure has always been viewed in the light of NEGATIVE PEER PRESSURE, but peer pressure could be positive too. The positivity is dependent on the pressure in question. If you notice, parents do send their kids to school with higher learning experience and these kids with low IQ could go there and be pressure by kids their age into doing well in school. When a child sees his peers reading, there is the tendency for that child to read too. At the end of the day, PEER PRESSURE can be positive too.
We shouldn't always look at it from the negative side.
You're absolutely correct, it a two way thing