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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The hypocritical faux outrage in this thread is funny. I'd guess 75% of people overall text & drive. Teens see mom and dad do it, so they do it too.[/quote]

Then I guess you are seeing representatives of the other 25% here.

My oldest son drove tow truck for a few years.  He texted behind the wheel until his first clean up of such an accident.  [/quote]

Yep. I never wore my seatbelt and didn't think twice about texting and driving until I attended an autopsy for multiple traumatic injuries from a car accident as part of my job. The parties were going less than 60 miles an hour and it was a horror scene. If you don't discipline your kid for this, and he continues to harbor the attitude of "it won't happen to me" and endanger everyone around him, you're a grade-A asshole. [/quote]

OP, maybe call the police or fire dept and see if they have any sort of "scared straight"-type program for driving. Maybe crime-scene photos, or survivors/drivers/parents of victims who talk to kids.[/quote]

[b]Or maybe OP could, you know, PARENT HER KID?[/b]![/quote]

But... but... then he would know she was snooping.  And he would change his password and she would lose access.  And she would have to drive her other kids to all of their activities!  Her husband doesn't like it when she does all of the driving.

Parenting her kid would inconvenience her.[/quote]

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