Last April the California Highway Patrol conducted a month-long campaign to crack down on distracted driving, resulting in 1,600 citations for Sacramento area drivers for using hand-held mobile phones while driving.
According to California Highway Patrol Officer Adrian Quinero, the minimum fine is $159.
And so it goes with such matters of personal security.
People don’t always do what is in their own best interest; hence legislation and fines about matters of common sense impacting public safety.
As our vehicles become equipped with more cyber-powered gadgets, and our distracted lifestyles incorporate increasing levels of multi-tasking, we may look at an opportunity to bond with our children over cyber safe rules. The use of cyber technology, like driving, should be treated like as privilege, not a right.
Children of the Web seek authenticity from parents.
So it is important that we model the safe driving behavior we wish to see it in our children. They receive enough superficial stuff in their cyber-powered, networked worlds wherein connections often pose as relationships.
Empty and confusing at times.
When they witness parents walking the talk, with sincere concern for personal security it forms a boundary around which you and your family can bond. So let us put down the phone and drive; reinforce to our youth that cyber technology does not rule our lives.
Rather it serves our purposes, and does not command us to be unsafe drivers.
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