Safe Young Drivers: A Guide for Parents and Teens [Spiral-bound]

Phil Berardelli (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 2000

A 16-year-old is 12 times more likely to die in a motor vehicle crash than his or her parents. Don't leave this important skill to chance. The new and updated Safe Young Drivers 2000 offers a step-by-step guide that will help you teach your teenager safe driving skills. With ten practical lessons, you and your teen will move from the pre-driving checklist through basic moves, back roads and quiet streets and on to highways, night driving and heavy traffic. Author Phil Berardelli, a journalist, former teacher and father of two, offers common sense advice for parents teaching this lifesaving skill, and he addresses teens with refreshing candor. This new edition includes additional materials as suggested by parents who used the first edition.

Editorial Reviews

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This book takes a great approach...with a lot of good tips and some great ideas. -- Jack Ford, The Today Show

About the Author

Phil Berardelli has been a writer and journalist for over 25 years, covering such topics as science, education and popular culture. His work appears in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and other newspapers and magazines. He was a middle school teacher for seven years, and for five years he produced and co-hosted the weekly television program, "The Moviegoing Family," which appeared in the Washington, D.C. area and nationally on The Learning Channel. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., he has lived in Northern Virginia since 1970. --This text refers to an alternate Spiral-bound edition.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 176 pages
• Publisher: Nautilus Communications; 2nd edition (November 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967519144
• ISBN-13: 978-0967519142
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,761,289 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELENT AID to TEACHING YOUR KID to DRIVE, November 30, 1999

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Carol M. Imhoff (Oceanside Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Safe Young Drivers : A Guide for Parents and Teens (Spiral-bound)

This is an excelent guide to teacing your new driver how to drive. I covers all the facets of driving. I, as a Ca. DMV Licsened Driving Instructor, recomend this book to anybody who is going to take on the challenge of teaching their "NEW DRIVER," wheather young or old, to buy and read this book. The format is great. Phil (the author) does a great job of teaching the Licensed Driver to teach the person w/a Learner's Permit to drive. It is written in a format where one section is to the instructor, (parent,) and another is to the 'Teen,' (student) in language that is easy to understand. Get one, and you will love it. Carol,

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super! A great tool for parents. Easy to use and logical., November 21, 1998

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This review is from: Safe Young Drivers : A Guide for Parents and Teens (Spiral-bound)

I just saw Mr. Berardelli interviewed on The Today Show and what he had to say makes so much sense. It is up to parents to tackle this incredibly important job of teaching our teenagers to drive. It could be a matter of life and death for them. This book makes it easy and every parent should read it and use it.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great dialog tool for you with your teen, January 17, 2002

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Dr. Nancy Dailey (Rixeyville, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Safe Young Drivers: A Guide for Parents and Teens (Spiral-bound)

Berardelli does a great job of coaching parents on 1) how to cope with teaching your teen to drive, and 2) how to engage your teen to see the responsibility and honor having a drivers license really is. My book is a bit tattered. I have 3 teen boys, 2 with licenses. I used his suggestions, particularly the 100-hour lesson log, to negotiate expectations for driving in our family. My husband and I take teaching our kids to drive very seriously. We have not delegated it to the school or a driving instructor. Cars are just too fast, too many drivers are either ignorant of the laws of physics or don't think they apply to them in their cars, and we all just make mistakes on the road. My sons attend a rural, private high school with @160 students. In the past 4 years, 2 teens have died in car crashes. It's the greatest fear I have, not random terrorism.
I highly recommend this book as a dialog tool with your teen. I have used it as a "mediator" of sorts, turning to it to stop arguements about driving techniques with my sons. Every high school driving instructor should distribute this book to all their parents!