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My stepson will be 16 in February. In Colorado, where he lives most of the year with his mom, he could have had a learner’s permit on his last birthday.
He doesn’t have one yet. As far as I know, the only time he’s ever been behind the wheel of a car was one time when he was 12 and his dad let him spin around a huge empty parking lot in slow motion to celebrate having grown tall enough to reach the pedals.
On his most recent visit, I asked him when he’d be allowed to get a license. He sort of shrugged and said he didn’t know. Continue reading »
The parents of Hamilton County, IN want to reduce teen traffic accidents in a big way, and have come up with safe driving initiatives called Now Think Now and Buckle Down.
Does your teenager drive like a maniac? Have they already been in a few accidents? Well it might not be their fault, entirely. It could actually be yours. It has nothing to do with your abilities as a driving instructor or even how you yell “Watch out!” every three minutes when they’re driving. It could be far more basic than that; it could be genetic.
Police were shocked when they pulled over an erratic driver to find the drunken 19-year-old mother was attempting to breastfeed while drive.
After almost creating a collision, the drunken mother gave chase while the police followed, assumed still breastfeeding. Oh, and she was driving without a license in an unlicensed vehicle.
It’s good for kids to have chores and responsibilities, I think. It builds character, gives them a sense of belonging, and makes life a little easier for the parents. I’m sure that’s what thirty-two-year-old Heather Choulos was thinking the other night when she assigned an unusual task to her thirteen-year-old son. She gave him the job of being the designated driver for her and her boyfriend after they had had too much to drink at a restaurant.
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I have to hand it to the Kiwis, they’re public awareness campaigns aren’t boring. First it was the baby throwing PSA and now this billboard of a child’s head which bleeds from the eyes, ears and nose every time it rains. The purpose for this child’s constant massive brain hemorrhages is pretty obvious: to remind New Zealanders to drive safer in the rain. Oh, let’s let them explain it:
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Remember those mock accidents that Students Against Drunk Driving used to put together every spring — usually right before prom — when you were in high school? You’d come to school to find a car wrecked on the school lawn, bloodied bodies strewn everywhere.
It was never very effective because — come on, we knew it was fake (unless you went to this school), and one of the “dead” victims would inevitably start laughing and ruin the whole thing.
Scare tactics are one way to get teens talking, though, and shock value isn’t wasted on them. A new 30-minute extremely graphic PSA that’s circulating around UK schools is realistic enough to make them sit up and take notice. The topic isn’t drunk driving, though, it’s driving while texting.
Before you watch, a disclaimer: It’s very graphic and not appropriate if your kids are in the room. Let us know — do you think this is an effective way to teach kids safer driving habits, or did they take it one step too far?
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