Discovery Girls

How influenced are you by what your friends say or do? Take this quiz and find out!

1. When you wear your favorite outfit, your classmates snicker and stare. Two seconds later, your name is loudly paired with “dork”, you?
   Vow to banish the outfit to the dark unreachable back of your closet—for good.

   Ask your best friends if you “look OK” every 15 minutes.

   Let the comments slide off your back—which happens to be covered by your favorite shirt.
2. You’re planning to audition for the middle school band, but your friends say cheerleading is the shortcut to cool—band is for losers! You:
   Say “see ya” to your sax—you won’t be making sweet music if it jeopardizes your rep.

   Decide to try out for both, even though you’d rather not “go team”.

   March to the beat of a different drum—you’ll show your school spirt in the band.
3. Your friends are on a diet and refuse to eat a snack or lunch at school. You:
   Follow your friends’ lead and trash your brown bag.

   Secretly snack away when your friends aren’t around.

   Let you friends’ stomachs grumble while you munch on healthy treats.
4. When your friends decide to give the new girl the silent treatment, you:
   Stop mid-sentence when she sits by your side, and hold your tongue until she leaves.

   Speak to her only when your friends aren’t around so they won’t get mad.

   Stay your typically talkative and friendly self no matter what your friends do.
5. Your friend Katie has started talking back to your teacher—and she expects you to back her up! You:
   Mumble something mean when your teacher walks by, just loud enough for Katie to hear.

   Don’t say anything for fear of upsetting your teacher—and especially Katie

   Politely tell Katie to cut it out. The meanness isn’t merited, and you’d rather not spend the day in the principal’s office, thank you very much.
6. You’ve always been into dolls, but your friends say it’s high time you left “that baby stuff” behind. You:
   Ship your dolls off to the Goodwill, and take up collecting celebrity autographs instead.

   Keep your dolls, but “display” them in a dark corner of your closet so your friends won’t see them.

   Bring your dolls to school on “Share Your Hobby Day”, so you can show everyone how totally cool they are.
7. All the girls in your group have gone boy-crazy but a boyfriend is the last thing you want. When the cutest guy in school asks you out, you:
   Say yes, of course—your friends will be so impressed!

   Avoid him as much as possible, but tell your friends the two of you are going out…really!

   Tell him—and your friends—that you’re not ready for a BF yet. Can’t you just be pals?