Jul 24, 2017
USING MONITORING TECHNOLOGY TO HELP MAKE TEEN DRIVING SAFER: My New Association With Hum by Verizon July 24, 2017 For the past several months, I’ve been taking a hiatus from eight years of helping parents understand how they can work with their teen... read more
Dec 1, 2016
Friends: Today and tomorrow mark the tenth anniversary of my son Reid’s crash and passing, at age 17. Reid’s death launched me on a journey, as a parent, of advocacy for safer driving, both by teens and all drivers. Today, I publish an essay entitled,... read more
Mar 29, 2016
As many of my traffic safety friends know (and I am here publicly disclosing), I have a tentative plan to dial down my safe teen driving activities including this blog, at the end of 2016. This December will mark ten years since Reid’s crash. I no longer have a teen... read more
Mar 11, 2016
Today’s New York Times reports on a Long Island teenager who in 2014 participated in a drag race that ended up killing five people and severely injured two others. The article says that New York Justice Terence Murphy “has committed to sentencing [the... read more
Jan 20, 2016
I recently received this email inquiry from a father: My story – I’m a 50+ Dad of 2 wonderful children, a daughter (15), and a son (17). Son has been driving with a learner’s permit since April. He had achieved well over the 40+ hours... read more
Dec 6, 2015
One of the benefits of being an independent blogger — no one pays me, or reviews or edits my posts — is that I am entirely unconstrained by politics, institutional loyalty, financial considerations, practicality, or even reality. With this mind set firmly... read more
Dec 2, 2015
Friends: Today, December 2, 2015, is a big day, and 2015 has been a good year. For my son Reid, that is. (Me too, but especially Reid.) Nine years after his passing, Reid’s story is now known to and embraced by more people than ever before, through the September... read more
Nov 30, 2015
I received this email from a gentleman with whom I have collaborated on a safe teen driving project: I am not a parent…and candidly—wondered if the book would hold my attention. I cannot recall the last time a book intrigued me to the point of not wanting to... read more
Nov 28, 2015
I think many people I told about this book when I was reading it were skeptical that it would be too depressing to read. It absolutely wasn’t. Reid’s death is tragic beyond words, and admittedly his story brought tears to my eyes more than once. But this... read more
Nov 26, 2015
This video/audio of an October interview with a radio station in Ocala, Florida may be, at 24 minutes, a big bite for my blog readers, but the hosts’ questions and comments were particularly insightful, more so than almost any other interview I’ve done. ... read more
