By Greg Bartlett
Uh-huh, that’s your kid behind the wheel, and he’s pulling away without you in the car with him. Now, now, don’t have a heart attack. Sure, he still seems like your baby – wasn’t it just yesterday you brought him home from the hospital? – but he doesn’t feel that way.
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By Greg Bartlett
My 16-year-old sister just got her restricted driver’s license this week. She’s been driving for a while now, but only with an adult in the car. Now she can drive by herself during the day and, like most teenagers, she’s enjoying the additional freedom.
But for many parents, when their teenagers reach
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By Greg Bartlett
Careless driving takes the lives of more teen drivers each year than any other cause of death. It’s easy for teens to feel invincible on the road, leading to irresponsible driving habits that can jeopardize their own safety as well as that of their passengers and of other drivers. Parents should be aware
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By Harriette Halepis
Here’s something that you don’t hear about every day: a retired sheriff’s deputy is attempting to help his son beat a speeding ticket. Why? Simply put, Roger Rude doesn’t believe that his son was speeding when the speeding ticket was issued.
You see, Rude had installed a GPS tracking device in his son’s car
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By Harriette Halepis
A recent study has shown that the human brain is not fully developed until age twenty-five. This means that teenage brains aren’t entirely equipped to make hefty decisions. In fact, the teenage brain is still under the stages of important development when it makes life changing decisions.
Teenagers are asked to shoulder all kinds
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By Greg Bartlett
It’s a well-known fact that teen drivers are among some of the most dangerous drivers on the road. More teens die in car crashes each year than from any other cause, and fatality rates among teen drivers are four times higher than those for older drivers. The reasons for these statistics are varied.
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By Greg Bartlett
Congratulations. Your teen just successfully passed the driving test and is holding a brand new driver’s license. Now it’s time to put your teen behind the wheel of your car.
Does that thought make you nervous? You’re not the only one. Many parents are concerned about the driving safety of
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By James Neely
In the world of teen driving accountability is important along with the training that young drivers receive before they obtain their license. The result of these two efforts will bring about safer roads. Who bears the blame when teen drivers are turned out into the streets before they are truly ready?
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Earlier this week, I wrote about how parents in Alabama, along with a local tv news station, got together to get a little information on one teen’s driving habits.
The teenager in question was not told beforehand that his driving habits were going to be monitored using a GPS tracking device. And, as you can imagine,
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Remember the old show “Candid Camera?” A person would be set up to walk into an unusual situation and be recorded without being aware. At some point, someone would pop out and tell them to smile because they were one “Candid Camera.”
One Alabama teenager was not smiling after he found out that his parents had
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