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25
Apr

Not So Fast – Parenting Your Teen Through the Dangers of Driving

“A concise, practical and potentially life-saving book that should be required reading for every parent before their teen gets behind the wheel.” Publishers Weekly, 7/15/13 Car crashes are the leading cause of death and injury to teens.  Promoting safer teen driving depends on teaching driving skills, adopting and enforcing teen driving laws, and parent oversight. 

20
Apr

Cognitive Distractions: Safe driving requires our brains to be entirely focused on driving

It is not enough to be holding the wheel and looking at the road-we need to devote our full attention to the task of driving. If we are not concentrating entirely on driving because we are trying to think about a secondary task – a cell phone conversation, texting, reading e-mails, etc  -than we are

05
Apr

Distracted Driving-Teens whose parents drive distracted are 2 to 4 times as likely to also drive distracted*

EndDD.org’s newest PSA targets parents and implores parents to model safe driving. Our children learn from us—our good habits and our bad. It’s not enough to tell our children how to drive we must show them.   Be the driver you want your child to be. For more suggestions for what parents, teens and businesses