by Tim | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Picture this: Your teen, a licensed driver for several months, receives a ticket from a police officer for violating some provision of your state’s teen driver laws – speeding, illegal passengers, on the road after curfew, violating cell phone restrictions,...
by Tim | Mar 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
This blog’s focus is safer teen driving, but let me digress to a larger issue about safe driving in general. I research topics for posts on this blog primarily by reading everything remotely relevant that I can find. Most recently, I have followed...
by Tim | Mar 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
Businesses, governments, and schools have long understood that one way to boost achievement and promote compliance is to shine a spotlight, to publicize lists of who qualifies for a status, who has followed the rules or who has not. Businesses post the names of...
by Tim | Mar 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Every summer, most high schools in the U.S. send forms to parents and guardians that ask for permission for various activities at school. The forms usually include something like this: _____ _____ I give permission for my child to drive to ...
by Tim | Feb 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
Dear Readers: After five months of blogging, I have provided you here with a great deal to read about cars, teens, accidents, and safe driving. As an alternative to your plowing through these articles, now on this blog is a video of a presentation that I made to a...
by Tim | Feb 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
I am not an adolescent psychologist, but I don’t think I’m risking my credibility by observing that, in general, teenagers often operate in their own little world, focusing on themselves and how they fit in with their peers, regarding themselves as immune...
