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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted before, yes there is harm. Kids can't drive! I am now paying over 3K extra in insurance since dd totaled her brand new mid size suv. Had to deal with insurance for months, she had a concussion, still had side effects from it. I almost break out in hives from stress when she tells me she is driving to busier areas in the DMV! (She is not allowed to DC) I honestly believe(but dh thought different for his baby girl!) that you should drive a reliable car that you don't care about till 22 at least. On top of it, if your kid is off to college with the car, you have to worry about all the other idiot kids in college who are texting and driving and just have no awareness of traffic for years.(that is how DS's car ended up in a shop for a month, rear ended like nuts!) I go to DS's college town for games, and last time I saw a horrific head on collision between an SUV and a truck, clearly 4 girls in the suv were at fault, and all safe(thanks gosh) but cackling like morons,"omg, don't know how that happened!" Happened because you are turning left and not avoiding incoming traffic! DD's best friend had 2 accidents in first 2 months! Hit the car in the parking lot that was parked! Got hit another time. Ever other day on the way to DD's school, there is an accident, usually bunch of boys or girls in a car. And this is not in DC, we are talking MD suburbs! So, if for nothing else buy a smaller one, so your kids can pay some more attention instead of being unaware douche bags. You know that awareness of knowing where all the cars around you are at all times? Yeah, they don't have that, none of us had that for years at first. This is an honest confession of a BTDT mom, who bought 3!!! cars in the last 8 months and had 3 cars in shops and 1 totaled. Don't be me!(sorry, just a rant from a frustrated mom)[/quote]

Just because you give a kid a car doesn't mean you don't monitor it and restrict where it goes.  Kids should not be having a car early on in college. Sounds partially like a parenting issue.[/quote]
Whatever. She smashed the car 20 minutes away from us, I bet you you don't have teens. I am sure all the parents of all the teen I see in accidents on the way to school are also to blame.[/quote]

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