Wake Up Call: Teens Texting While Driving
August 20, 2009 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Parenting
Every day a person gets into a car and drives to work, to the store, a school, to their house, etc. Every day someone else gets in a car to do
the exact same thing, only they decide to get on the phone or text a friend. Imagine now that this other person is your son or daughter, or even yourself and they are distracted just for a brief second. But that second caused them to slowly go in the wrong direction on the road and now they are looking right up at oncoming traffic. It’s too late to stop, turn, …read more
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