by Tim | May 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
I am very grateful to the AAA national office, which has added a link to the Not So Fast website (www.nsfteendriving.com) to the “Tools For You” section of its teen driving website, called Keys2Drive. AAA and its federation of clubs are national leaders in promoting...
by Tim | May 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Connecticut DMV, with assistance from State Farm, has launched a campaign called “You’re Not Just Along For the Ride,” aimed at dealing with the risks of teen drivers with passengers. Those risks go up substantially during May through August, which are the four...
by Tim | May 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
On April 23, 2014, I had the privilege of presenting Not So Fast and my safe teen driving message to parents at Fitch High School in Groton, Connecticut. The next morning, the New London Day featured an article about my talk, and I received the photo above, taken by...
by Tim | Apr 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
In the six years I have been working on safer teen driving, I have met many parents who have lost sons or daughters, and a few who have been propelled by tragedy into extraordinary advocacy for safer driving. Joel Feldman, of Philadelphia, lost his daughter Casey in...
by Tim | Apr 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Earlier this week I was thrilled to appear on “Creating Cooperative Kids,” a TV program hosted by Bill Corbett, a psychologist and author of Love, Limits and Lessons: A Parents’ Guide to Raising Cooperative Kids. The program appears on 300 public access stations...
by Tim | Apr 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
I recently had the honor of being the luncheon speaker at the 16th Annual Connecticut Trauma Conference – doctors, nurses, EMT’s, trauma center administrators, law enforcement, and others connected to traumas services at Connecticut’s hospitals. My topic was...
