Sixteen is Too Young To Drive: Taking Control When Your Teen's Behind-the-Wheel [Paperback]

Donna R. Crossman (Author), Richard M. Crossman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2002 | ISBN-10: 0971862109 | ISBN-13: 978-0971862104

Sixteen Is Too Young To Drive is an essential resource for parents who dread the prospect of a young driver in the family, and want to protect the inexperienced teen from the inordinate behind-the-wheel risks.

This book provides a plan of action, from pre-learner's permit to post road test, for teaching teens to drive. Included is a 12-item questionnaire to help parents determine whether their teen is mature enough to drive. The book also covers newly revised graduated licensing laws, limitations of driver education, provides resources for supplemental practice, and offers advice on coping with peer pressure, drinking and driving, and other behavior problems affecting the teen driver.

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About the Author

Donna R Crossman has master's degree in education and is a former high school/middle school English teacher. For eight years, she and her husband, Richard, managed a defensive driving agency for the National Safety Council and taught their program to hundreds of drivers in the Albany, NY area.

Richard M Crossman has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and is an industrial hygienist for Lockheed Martin Corporation. For 26 years, he served as a firefighter and in the emergency services, and is currently certified as an Occupational Health and Safety Technologist. And as he has done so for the past 17 years, he continues to teach the National Safety Council's defensive driving course.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Footnote Publishing (May 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971862109
• ISBN-13: 978-0971862104
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,765,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Potentially life saving reading, August 11, 2002

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This review is from: Sixteen is Too Young To Drive: Taking Control When Your Teen's Behind-the-Wheel (Paperback)

Collaborative written by Donna and Richard Crossman, Sixteen Is Too Young To Drive: Taking Control When Your Teen's Behind-The-Wheel is a sobering book, written on the reflection that teenagers today are four times as likely as adults to have a motor vehicle accident, and more teens are likely to die in a car accident than from a drug overdose. Offering a profile test to determine whether one's teenager is ready to accept the responsibility of driving, a compare and contrast of different types of driver education, handling ground rules and misbehavior when an automobile is involved, Sixteen Is Too Young To Drive is potentially life saving reading for the parents.