About Don’t Drive Like This – Benefits for Parents and Families
This section is the About Don’t Drive Like This project and its value to parents and families. Click here for information materials you can download and see the menu at the top of this page or click here for the catalog of offerings for sale.
Aggressive, Impaired, and Distracted Driving endanger your children and communities
“Don’t Drive Like This” content incorporates humor, engaging visuals, and thoughtful conversation prompts that align with what young and old drivers alike should know about many situations on the road. The content encourages discussions in the home to reinforce learning parents and siblings. And frankly, many parents can learn stuff from their children about these topics too.
This is not a traditional driver manual or text. This project is specific as a support system for lessons on road rage, distracted driving, and safe habits. The content is accessible, relatable, and designed to spark real conversations. Jump to order page.
The approach is about situations supported by story-rich visuals, humor, and conversation / writing prompts. All crafted to:
- Support attention
- Enhance retention
- Build at-home parent and guardian discussion topics
- Create engagement with instructors
“The visual, conversational, and humorous learning styles in these materials support the instruction I’m already doing. They provide new approaches to help my students: New drivers in-car and in-classroom; Experienced drivers in points reduction classes; and Individuals who struggle in traditional classrooms. As a driver education instructor with 20+ years of experience, I appreciate the time and effort invested in this project.
–Sonya Friar, 1st Gear Driving School, New Hampshire
Support Every Learning Style for Better Outcomes The paperback and the posters leverage illustration, humor, and interactive prompts to reach students of all backgrounds and learning preferences. This diversity in approach has been shown to boost engagement, retention, and classroom participation. Check out this blog entry to learn more on this point:
Materials for Download
Meet Ashford and Ashley They teach us what not to do on the road. Their aggressive and unsafe antics are, unfortunately, too common. We need to start training learning and younger drivers not to Drive Like an Ash!™ By using a combination of story-filled illustrations, funny section titles, humorous limericks, and hundreds of conversation prompts, Don’t Drive Like This uses your skills and various teaching styles to ensure students learn and retain information and habits.
Too many of us encounter aggressive behavior on the road. Sometimes we are on the receiving end of the behavior. Sometimes we are the unsafe driver. (C’mon, admit it.)Are you both categories? Do you have a child, spouse, or friend that needs coaching? Do you need to explore ways to calm down and not “lose it” in a car? That’s what this project is all about.
The impact of poor decisions and responses is dramatic to all of us. We all pay in terms of time, money, stress and mental health, injuries, and even lives lost. It’s up to all of us to drive change! (Pun intended.)
Table of contents of the paperback
- 43 story-based illustrations, limericks, overviews, and 7 to 9 conversation prompts for each section.
- 19 brief but powerful sections on the root causes of aggressive driving and avoidance techniques are interspersed throughout.
Contents:
About This Project
Why Aggressive Driving? How Do We Avoid It
The No Right on Red Rager
The Troubling Testy Tailgater
The School Bus Scofflaw
The Spontaneous Street Stopper
The Threatened Tractor Trailer
The Careless Crosswalk Killer
The Miserable Motorcycle Muddle
The Loathsome Litterbug
The Lane Leaping Lunatic
The Bloody, Bambi Blunder
The Belligerent Brake Check
The Automobile Anger Apprentice
The Dubious Donut Derby
The Scared and the Sprayed
The Menacing Merging Misfit
The Besieged Bicyclists
The Risk-taking Roadway Reverser
The Specs, Drugs, and Self Control
The Competitive, Confrontational Commute
The Zip It, Don’t Clip It!
The Wild West Weapon Wielder
The Kill ‘Em with Kindness
The Rogue Road Racers
The Furtive Funeral Finagler
The Left Turn Laceration
The Stressed-Out Student Driver
The Four-Way Stop Situation
The Abrasive Accessibility Abuser
The Parking Lot Pull Through
The Left Lane Exit Escalation
The Reckless Rescue Rubbernecker
The Literally Nobody Behind Me Turn
The D3: The Distracted, Dangerous, Driver
The Parallel Parking Putz
The Impaired Imbiber, Inhaler, or Injector
The Wheel! Of! Impairment!
The Rural Railroad Rager
The Wide Berth Bumper Buffer
The Power Outage Panic
The Left Lane Loiterer and Triggered Tailgaters
The Lazy Left Losers
The Box Blocking Bonehead
The Flipped Script of Win!
