Monthly Archives: March 2016

Distracted Driving Lessons
Distracted Driver

Do you have a young driver in your family? Or a soon-to-be one?

We all worry about our teens (or soon to be teens even if they’re now only two) as they are about to take the wheels of our cars and get on the road. Distractions are everywhere. Does your teen driver see them? Simply having a cell phone or a friend in the car can be distracting for a teen, who is new to driving and has a yet undeveloped pre-frontal cortex, which makes good snap decisions difficult.

A concerned mom of a teenager and a guest blogger wrote to me with her desire to spread the word about a video game about distracted driving. She found it to be very helpful for her teen driver. She wrote me the following story. Please check out the video game she found so helpful.

“The other morning when I drove my youngest daughter to school, the traffic was slow and a little nerve wracking due to the rainy weather. My daughter was sitting in the back seat watching a video

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