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...
by Tim | Jul 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
In the past few days I have seen two news reports that individually and together demonstrate our law enforcement system getting tougher with teens who text while driving. The first story involved a 20 year old in Wisconsin who left work to drive home around...
by Tim | Jul 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
One of the themes I have tried to develop on this blog is how the national public safety crisis of teen driver crashes, fatalities, and injuries is largely hidden from our view, for two reasons: crashes are so common that they are almost always reported as local news...