t's 9:00 p.m. on a Friday night in downtown Appleton, Wisconsin, population about 70,000. Parents: do you know where your disaffected youth are? Read More »

driving license is a ticket to freedom for 16 year-olds but too often the price is steep. Auto crashes cause a third of all teen deaths, and 16 year olds are involved in five times as many fatal accidents as the general public. Read More »

Just getting behind the wheel and driving to work or going to the mall on today's highways can be a very stressful experience -- even for the expert driver. Why is this? Our society continues, as in the 80s, to want to do more in less time! There are many more offensive drivers on the road and, in many cases, it is a miracle each time we reach our destination safely without incident. We parents can remember our first driving days on less crowded highways. Drivers were referred to as "laid back" and the term road rage had never been heard before. Now people are driving at much faster speeds while dealing with many more distractions. Read More »

Webster's defines attitude as "a manner that shows one's disposition." and then defines disposition as "one's nature or temperament." A proper attitude by both the parent (or guardian) and the teen driver will benefit a teen driver during the "Critical 1st phase of driving" -- the first five years. Let's look at desirable attitudes and how to achieve them. Read More »

It is a headline which appears all too frequently -- another teen driver and friends were involved in a serious or deadly accident. The story points out the teen driver lost control of the vehicle causing it to strike another vehicle, an object, or flip over several times! Read More »