by Tim | Aug 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Consumer columnist Kevin Hunt of the Hartford Courant (“The Bottom Line”) recently wrote an informative column comparing how much household car insurance rates go up when a teen driver joins the family’s group of insured drivers. The basic answer — no surprise...
by Tim | Aug 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
In the past few months I have written several times about the dangers of joyriding — teen driving with no particular destination or timetable — and how the presence of passengers on a joyride is a formula for peer pressure that leads to risky driving...
by Tim | Jul 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
One of my jobs on this blog, occasionally, is to point out advice given to parents of teen drivers that misses the mark. My goal is not to embarrass or criticize any person or company, but sometimes one of the best ways to showcase good advice is to point out bad...
by Tim | Jul 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Those of you with sharp powers of observation may have noticed an addition last week to the landing page of this blog: the announcement of the publication of my new book, Not So Fast: Parenting Your Teen Through the Dangers of Driving. As detailed on our new website,...
by Tim | Jul 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
On the heels of my post about how the National Safety Council has done us all a great service by collecting and publishing national news stories about teen driver crashes, they have published an infographic that aptly summarizes the statistics that document teen...