I Promise Program provides negotiating power
Your parents are concerned
with the fact that car crashes are the leading cause of permanent injury and
death for teens in
As a teen who just obtained
a driver’s license, you have driven with your mom and/or dad for
experience. You have become aware of
their driving habits, and you may even be concerned for their safety from
paying attention to their driving!
However, just how do you negotiate with your parents for the keys to the
car?
The “I Promise” Program has
a unique answer. The program is designed
to appease your parents while keeping you both safe on
the road. The “I Promise” Program relies
on your parent’s willingness to be a positive role model and not be
hypocritical towards you. You, on the
other hand, must be able to demonstrate concern for your parent’s well being
while at the same time maturely accepting your responsibility to be an
appropriate road user.
Together, you enter into a
mutual safe-driving agreement. The
agreement spells out your mutual obligations to drive sober, wear seat belts,
etc. Then you agree to place a rear window
decal on the car that displays a toll free number. This decal allows other people to make
reports on your driving behavior. The
reports are confidential and come to only your family by mail. Driving responsibly guarantees no
reports. Driving courteously may result
in a complimentary report, and driving dangerously may result in a
complaint. Your family manages any
reports as pre-negotiated in the family safe driving agreement.
As a teen, the “I Promise”
Program provides you with the power to negotiate in advance, the rules for
obtaining and using the family car.
Parents will be impressed with your maturity in providing a solution to
demonstrate your responsibility in a way that keeps everyone focused on safety.
How do you think they will
react to your question then?
A limited number of
registrations for the “I Promise” Program are available FREE from Healthy
Lancaster. Call (803) 285-6220 to get
yours today!
Tracey Garrell
Healthy
For more information and to print an order form see: www.ipromiseprogram.com