It sometimes seems like young people believe they are invincible. According to one statistic, only 56 percent of teens in Missouri wear a seatbelt, as opposed to more than 70 percent of drivers overall. However, the issue may not be misguided believe of invincibility as much as a lack of driver education for teens.
Graduated Drivers License
The graduated drivers license program, or GDL, in effect in Missouri offers teens provisional licenses which allow them to drive under restricted circumstances. This allows teens to gain experience driving with a licensed driver until they are allowed to drive on their own. But as much as 50% of teenagers fail the learner’s permit exam the first time they take it.
Although the learner’s permit exam is rigorous, education is all that is required to pass it. If your teen has already failed the learner’s permit exam, he or she may suffer damage to self-esteem and lose confidence in his or her ability to drive. A driver education course can not only help your teen regain confidence, but know what to do in dangerous situations, before they encounter them.
Knowing Who to Trust
Many teens lack common sense when driving not because of a lack of intelligence, but because what we call “common sense” is actually learned responses to certain situations. For example, while you may understand that it is dangerous to pull over in certain circumstances, your teen may not know that he or she has the option of driving to a safe place before pulling over.
A good driver education course should teach your teen:
• How to respond to law enforcement officials
• How to care for a car
• Missouri traffic law and how to follow it
• Highway safety
• How to respond to dangerous situations
• What do to after a car accident
Professional Driver Education
You may believe that you can offer your teen sufficient driver education to prepare him or her for any situation, but professional driver education offers a number of benefits:
• Insurance credit
• Standardized curriculum
• Extensive knowledge
• Interactive learning with the instructor or other teens
• Confidence
Many high schools offer driver education for their students, or recommend a driver education course to their students at a discounted rate. You can contact your student’s high school to learn if they have a preferred driver education course and how to enroll your teen.
To learn more about the benefits of driver education for teens, please visit the website of The Bradley Law Firm, serving driving teens and their parents in the St. Louis, Jefferson City, and Kansas City areas of Missouri.
Article Source:
http://www.articlecity.com/articles/kids_and_teens/article_511.shtml
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Real Life Guidance to Understanding Your Teen
Product Name: Real Life Guidance to Understanding Your Teen
Rating: 9
Where to Buy: Real Life Guidance Website
Description: This report gives you an inside glance out how easy and helpful understanding your teen can be. With this report you will learn how to reach deep into your own resources to be able to not only understand but help your teen through these turbulent years.
Review: I remember being a teenager. I thought I had the world by the toe and could do just about anything I wanted too. I also thought I was the only one who knew anything and that no matter what they said my parents didn’t have a clue about me or my life. You know what after raising 3 of my own I have to come to find out that some of those types of thoughts are probably true.
You can’t raise a teenager in this day and age the way our parents could raised us. It’s just not possible with all the things that teenagers have to face these days. If the truth be known when it comes to things like the computer, jobs, school, friends and even sex they probably know more than we could imagine and much more than we knew as at their age.
There is help to get you through all this and be on an even playing ground with your children. This report is just that help. It is a straight forward report that will help you to understand many of the things your teenager is dealing with. It doesn’t give you hidden agendas or try to make you think its all fun and roses. That’s what is best about this report. It is true and honest information that works.
Understanding Your Teen goes into things like why your teenager has mood swings. Not only does explain why, it even gives you tips on how to deal with and work through them. It helps you to understand that communication is number one have to with your teenager but it helps to finds ways to keep that communication open and honest.
If you are looking for some help in understanding your teenager please pick up your copy. It can give you insight into and about your teenager along with resources that every parent needs to make it through this lovely but many times difficult stage of parenthood.
It will also give you a sense of well being and confidence in knowing that there are other people in this world going through the same things and that help can begin as soon as right now. Raising a teenager is not an easy job for parents or their teen, but having some honest, straightforward guidance can be the difference between raising your teen or your teen raising you.
Rating: 9
Where to Buy: Real Life Guidance Website
Description: This report gives you an inside glance out how easy and helpful understanding your teen can be. With this report you will learn how to reach deep into your own resources to be able to not only understand but help your teen through these turbulent years.
Review: I remember being a teenager. I thought I had the world by the toe and could do just about anything I wanted too. I also thought I was the only one who knew anything and that no matter what they said my parents didn’t have a clue about me or my life. You know what after raising 3 of my own I have to come to find out that some of those types of thoughts are probably true.
You can’t raise a teenager in this day and age the way our parents could raised us. It’s just not possible with all the things that teenagers have to face these days. If the truth be known when it comes to things like the computer, jobs, school, friends and even sex they probably know more than we could imagine and much more than we knew as at their age.
There is help to get you through all this and be on an even playing ground with your children. This report is just that help. It is a straight forward report that will help you to understand many of the things your teenager is dealing with. It doesn’t give you hidden agendas or try to make you think its all fun and roses. That’s what is best about this report. It is true and honest information that works.
Understanding Your Teen goes into things like why your teenager has mood swings. Not only does explain why, it even gives you tips on how to deal with and work through them. It helps you to understand that communication is number one have to with your teenager but it helps to finds ways to keep that communication open and honest.
If you are looking for some help in understanding your teenager please pick up your copy. It can give you insight into and about your teenager along with resources that every parent needs to make it through this lovely but many times difficult stage of parenthood.
It will also give you a sense of well being and confidence in knowing that there are other people in this world going through the same things and that help can begin as soon as right now. Raising a teenager is not an easy job for parents or their teen, but having some honest, straightforward guidance can be the difference between raising your teen or your teen raising you.
Monday, June 7, 2010
How to Recognize Your Teens Problems - By Mitestarossa, eHow Member
Instructions
Step 1
QUIET - Recognize unusually quiet behavior in your teen? If your teen is quiet and it lasts for hours or days or weeks, there could be a problem. I teen that keeps quiet may be trying to keep something from you that is painful to them. The problem may be minor such as a broken heart or it could be serious such as abuse. Spend time with your teen to see if you can extract information without making them feel uncomfortable. Sometimes it is easier for a teen to talk to a grandmother, grandfather, uncle or aunt.
Step 2
GRADES DROP - Recognize a drop in your teens grades? School work does become progressively more difficult over time, so a slight drop in grades as children get older can be normal. However, if your teen has a drop in grades and seems to be disinterested in their school work, there could be another problem. You need to know everything that is going on in your teens life so that you can help them with the issues that they are going through. Never leave your teen alone with another teen of the opposite sex. Not even for a short amount of time. It puts both teens in a compromising position.
Step 3
TROUBLESOME BEHAVIOR - Recognize troublesome behavior in your teen? Teens sometimes cause trouble because of the pain that they are in. They are essentially asking for help. If your child is causing trouble at school or within the family, you may have a problem on your hands. You will not be able to help until you find out what the problem is. Help your child get through difficult times by spying on them to find out what problems they are having. It is completely acceptable for you to search through their rooms when they are not home, monitor their phones calls, chats and emails and eavesdrop when they are with their friends. It is your responsibility to help them become the best adult that they can be, so do your part and help them through the tough times.
Step 1
QUIET - Recognize unusually quiet behavior in your teen? If your teen is quiet and it lasts for hours or days or weeks, there could be a problem. I teen that keeps quiet may be trying to keep something from you that is painful to them. The problem may be minor such as a broken heart or it could be serious such as abuse. Spend time with your teen to see if you can extract information without making them feel uncomfortable. Sometimes it is easier for a teen to talk to a grandmother, grandfather, uncle or aunt.
Step 2
GRADES DROP - Recognize a drop in your teens grades? School work does become progressively more difficult over time, so a slight drop in grades as children get older can be normal. However, if your teen has a drop in grades and seems to be disinterested in their school work, there could be another problem. You need to know everything that is going on in your teens life so that you can help them with the issues that they are going through. Never leave your teen alone with another teen of the opposite sex. Not even for a short amount of time. It puts both teens in a compromising position.
Step 3
TROUBLESOME BEHAVIOR - Recognize troublesome behavior in your teen? Teens sometimes cause trouble because of the pain that they are in. They are essentially asking for help. If your child is causing trouble at school or within the family, you may have a problem on your hands. You will not be able to help until you find out what the problem is. Help your child get through difficult times by spying on them to find out what problems they are having. It is completely acceptable for you to search through their rooms when they are not home, monitor their phones calls, chats and emails and eavesdrop when they are with their friends. It is your responsibility to help them become the best adult that they can be, so do your part and help them through the tough times.
Friday, June 4, 2010
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