by Tim | Jul 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
USING MONITORING TECHNOLOGY TO HELP MAKE TEEN DRIVING SAFER: My New Association With Hum by Verizon July 24, 2017 For the past several months, I’ve been taking a hiatus from eight years of helping parents understand how they can work with their teen...
by Tim | Dec 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Friends: Today and tomorrow mark the tenth anniversary of my son Reid’s crash and passing, at age 17. Reid’s death launched me on a journey, as a parent, of advocacy for safer driving, both by teens and all drivers. Today, I publish an essay entitled,...
by clarisey | Mar 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
As many of my traffic safety friends know (and I am here publicly disclosing), I have a tentative plan to dial down my safe teen driving activities including this blog, at the end of 2016. This December will mark ten years since Reid’s crash. I no longer have a teen...
by Tim | Mar 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
Today’s New York Times reports on a Long Island teenager who in 2014 participated in a drag race that ended up killing five people and severely injured two others. The article says that New York Justice Terence Murphy “has committed to sentencing [the...
by Tim | Jan 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
I recently received this email inquiry from a father: My story – I’m a 50+ Dad of 2 wonderful children, a daughter (15), and a son (17). Son has been driving with a learner’s permit since April. He had achieved well over the 40+ hours...
by clarisey | Dec 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
One of the benefits of being an independent blogger — no one pays me, or reviews or edits my posts — is that I am entirely unconstrained by politics, institutional loyalty, financial considerations, practicality, or even reality. With this mind set firmly...
