Today I start my seventh year of blogging under the masthead “From Reid’s Dad.” I started the blog in September 2009, wondering if I would be meeting a need among parents of teen drivers for better information about safe teen driving. Six years, more than 200 posts, several hundred thousand online visitors, and a couple of national public service awards later, the answer would appear to be “yes.” I am deeply grateful to the readers, parents, organizations, and advocates who have embraced, supported, and promoted From Reid’s Dad. As always, my inexpressible thanks to Curt Clarisey of Clarisey Consulting in Simsbury, Connecticut ,who has faithfully and skillfully maintained this blog, and now revised its format twice. Thank you Curt! (In particular, Curt has been very patient with my habit of emailing him a “next blog post” — and then correcting typos later.)
But also today, I am launching a new era of blogging. On September 1, 2015, Chicago Review Press, publisher of my book Not So Fast, will release the book in Spanish as No Tan Rápido (as outlined in several earlier blog posts in the past year). In addition, on about September 15, 2015, my new book, His Father Still: A Parenting Memoir, will be published by Argo Navis, as division of Perseus Books. With the publication of His Father Still, I am refocusing the scope of this blog, from advice to parents about safe teen driving to a broader discussion of parenting issues, mainly dealing with what I call “the parenting calculus” of education teens by exposing them to life’s dangers vs. protecting them from life’s risks. This balance is one of the primary themes that underlie the story told in His Father Still. I will of course continue my discussion of safe teen driving, but will add other parenting topics.
So, there will be much, much more to follow, but as of today, we have a new look, two new books, and a new focus. Onward and upward.
