Crashproof Your Kids: Make Your Teen a Safer, Smarter Driver

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Every year, six million sons and daughters will become first-time drivers. Fifty-eight percent of them will be involved in a car accident within a year of getting their license, and a significant portion of these crashes will be fatal. But here's the good news: research has shown that car crashes can be reduced by up to 30 percent when you, the parent, are actively involved in your teen's instruction and set certain limits.

In Crashproof Your Kids, certified driving instructor and dad Timothy Smith has combined the collective wisdom of numerous experts to develop the Crashproof Plan: a series of behind-the-wheel exercises designed to improve your teen's driving awareness, behavior, and skill in a way that fits your schedule. Written in a highly accessible, informal, and often humorous style, this comprehensive plan begins where drivers' education programs end, and includes:

• A step-by-step plan to develop your teen's braking, car control, and defensive driving skills

• How to handle road emergencies and basic car maintenance

• Tips on helping your teen deal with dangerous distractions, including peer pressure and the use of alcohol and drugs

• The Crashproof Contract, which outlines the expectations, responsibilities, and rules of the road for both the teen and the parent

You'll get plenty of help on how to communicate vital driving concepts to your teen, and you'll laugh, learn, and sympathize with stories from parents who have already been there. Crashproof Your Kids is an essential resource for any parents wanting to help their teenagers successfully navigate the single most dangerous activity they'll ever undertake.

What Customers Say About Crashproof Your Kids: Make Your Teen a Safer, Smarter Driver:

Start with Crash Proof Your Kids. It is formatted in an easy to read and understand way and written by a father who obviously put a lot of time and research into this book. This is one of the most comprehensive books on teen driving I have reviewed to date. It covers everything parents need to be prepared for as well as a fantastic teen driving contract. Every parent with kids getting ready to drive, need to take the time to educate themselves first.

The practical approach to safe driving techniques are easy to incorporate. I am in the process of teaching TWO teens to drive, so this book has been a great help. Heading out now to work on the parking exercises, and I'm not even anxious.that says a lot.

I would like a "library quality," edition for my professional library.Certified/Licensed Driving Instructor,Carol The only improvement that I can reccoment is that it should be in a quality binding on quality paper, vs. Anybody who has or will have the responsibility of teaching their own, or other new drivers to drive should be required to read this book. It is excelLent on the subject of teaching a person or persons to drive, it rates right up there with, "Safe Young Drivers," by Barardelli that I reviewd in the past. soft paper binding on 'newsprint,' that many are allergic/sensitive to.

That's just not an option today, and this book outlines a complete course of practice that will definately help me to help my son be a better driver. I am very pleased with it. My mother gave me the keys to the car and I drove home from getting my permit. So many things about driving we just take for granted after all these years, but the book reminds us that these little things must be learned and gives us recommendations as to how to introduce them. He is responding very positively, and seems to really appreciate the fact that I care enough to be reading the book and following the course with him. I have been using the recommendations and following the prescribed practice tasks while teaching my son to drive. The book has me thinking of things to talk about with him that I would not have thought about on my own. How scarey is that.

Written with clever humor, common sense, and uncommon understanding of how to really develop driving skills, this book helps parents and kids avoid the conflicts usually found in parent-teen "instruction" by making the parents and teen become team members in accomplishing the many excellent driving exercises offered. This well-organized and well-presented book can be a godsend to parents facng the daunting task of helping their kids learn to survive while driving. For that reason alone, it's worth far more than the purchase price.