Teen Driving Contracts: A Proactive Approach for Parents

Driving contracts between parents and teens are designed to set reasonable expectations and limitations of vehicle usage and behaviors on the road. Beyond teaching a teen how to drive, parents must establish a set of guidelines that balance your concerns as a parent, and a teen’s newly found freedom and independence.

Street Smart 101s’ Driving Coach 101 Eliminates the Unnecessary Tension Parents Experience with Teens ‘Behind the Wheel’

Crash Reduction 101: Affordable New Online Tool for Parents, Designed to Reduce Teen Driving Accidents and Save Lives Now Available

Your Car is Accelerating Out of Control! What Do You Do?

With all the news stories out there about the problems Toyota is having with the throttle sticking on some of their models, we thought we would share this video from Consumer Reports on how to deal with the situation. This can be a scary situation for an experienced driver, but it could be a deadly situation for a novice teen driver. So we recommend you review this video with your teen and talk about what you would do if it happens to you.

Come Clean With Your Teen Driver

We’re Not in OZ Anymore and so far in our kid's lives we have been the all knowing, all powerful being such as the Wizard of OZ. But at the end of that movie we found out it was just smoke & mirrors and the all powerful wizard was just an ordinary average Joe from Kansas.

Rhode Island Bans Texting

Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri signed a new law banning all drivers from text messaging while driving on November 9, 2009. This makes Rhode Island the 19th state, along with the District of Columbia, to pass such a law. In their press release the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) and its Office on Highway Safety state they are sending a message to drivers that it is now illegal to text while driving.