The human brain's ability to function is not complete until we reach about age 25. This is, by the way, relatively new science, not anything your parents learned in high school or college, so don't expect them to automatically appreciate this new perspective, much less apply it to your driving. This differs from intelligence, personality, or character it just means that until our brains finish growing, we don't fully detect the danger in a situation, or we underestimate it. In the past ten years or so, scientists scanning the human brain have shown that its ability to function is not complete until we reach about age 25, and the last parts that develop are judgment and restraint – the ability to perceive danger and take action to reduce or avoid risk. , he has been a rational voice promoting better teen driving education and increased awareness of parents' role in keeping their children safe behind the wheel. Author of Not So Fast: Parenting Your Teen Through Dangers of Driving Timothy Hollister is an attorney and teen safety advocate in Connecticut. You may have heard of the famous prayer asking for the ability to accept what we cannot change, the courage to change what we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. If my opening has made you roll your eyes, I ask you to give me a few hundred words of your time, based on my promise that the rest of this is about you, not me. I start with my tragedy only to introduce myself as more interested in safe After seven years, we don't cry as much as we used to, but we are left with painful wonder: what would Reid have been doing today if he had lived? My son's death devastated our family and our community.
#QUIZLET TRAVIS JUST GOT HIS DRIVERS LISENCE DRIVER#
I say would because he died, the driver in a one-car crash, at age 17, just 11 months after getting his My son Reid (pictured on the left, at right) would have turned 25 this month.
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