Comments on: US DOT Funds Survey: Are ADHD Teen Drivers Increasing Accident Rates? http://www.youronlineinsurance.com/car-insurance/us-dot-funds-survey-are-adhd-teen-drivers-increasing-accident-rates-140/ Answers to your online insurance questions Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dan Fitchette http://www.youronlineinsurance.com/car-insurance/us-dot-funds-survey-are-adhd-teen-drivers-increasing-accident-rates-140/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Dan Fitchette Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:30:14 +0000 http://www.youronlineinsurance.com/?p=773#comment-532 I have been posting here for long, I did find this post really worth of publishing to another forums and share with other friends, well I do it on your permission, coz I think this will help several other webmasters as well. If you will like this to shared on other forums as well, I will really like to help. I will post it with your name to make your work really help full for you as well! Keep up the good work, post more topics like this and I know the forum will really be proud of their best resources. I have been posting here for long, I did find this post really worth of publishing to another forums and share with other friends, well I do it on your permission, coz I think this will help several other webmasters as well. If you will like this to shared on other forums as well, I will really like to help. I will post it with your name to make your work really help full for you as well! Keep up the good work, post more topics like this and I know the forum will really be proud of their best resources.

]]> By: Shannon Machelett http://www.youronlineinsurance.com/car-insurance/us-dot-funds-survey-are-adhd-teen-drivers-increasing-accident-rates-140/comment-page-1/#comment-527 Shannon Machelett Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:55:16 +0000 http://www.youronlineinsurance.com/?p=773#comment-527 I have a fifteen yr old (16 in April 2010) He has decided he didn't need his meds for ADHD. Been without it for two wks now. Just found out last night for sure by counting his pills. I tried encouraging independence of pill taking recently by just setting the bottle on his cell phone before I left for work each morning, instead of physically waking him to hand it to him. Not going to happen. We just talked about this tonight. If he was able to take the meds on his own at his age, he probably wouldn't need them. Make since? Driving was when I first noticed his lack of meds. He is VERY EASILY distracted, AND kids that don't take the meds they need seem to think they are much more capable drivers, and they are not. Medicated, he would THINK before he looked away from the road to find the radio knob. Without meds, he doesn't stop to THINK. Not reckless, just impulsive. I recommend ANY parent of driving teens that have ADHD to make sure you kids are taking their meds. It DOES make all the difference. I see insurance rates going up someday soon for this. I do hope they evaluate, and hopefully demand proof of treatment before raising insurance rates any higher. Medicated, these kids are better than some of the teens that DON'T have adhd. I have a fifteen yr old (16 in April 2010) He has decided he didn’t need his meds for ADHD. Been without it for two wks now. Just found out last night for sure by counting his pills. I tried encouraging independence of pill taking recently by just setting the bottle on his cell phone before I left for work each morning, instead of physically waking him to hand it to him. Not going to happen. We just talked about this tonight. If he was able to take the meds on his own at his age, he probably wouldn’t need them. Make since? Driving was when I first noticed his lack of meds. He is VERY EASILY distracted, AND kids that don’t take the meds they need seem to think they are much more capable drivers, and they are not. Medicated, he would THINK before he looked away from the road to find the radio knob. Without meds, he doesn’t stop to THINK. Not reckless, just impulsive. I recommend ANY parent of driving teens that have ADHD to make sure you kids are taking their meds. It DOES make all the difference. I see insurance rates going up someday soon for this. I do hope they evaluate, and hopefully demand proof of treatment before raising insurance rates any higher. Medicated, these kids are better than some of the teens that DON’T have adhd.

]]> By: Kayla Fay http://www.youronlineinsurance.com/car-insurance/us-dot-funds-survey-are-adhd-teen-drivers-increasing-accident-rates-140/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Kayla Fay Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:07:01 +0000 http://www.youronlineinsurance.com/?p=773#comment-7 ADHD boys are notorious for being "easily distracted, forgetfulness, having difficulty focusing on one task, being impatient," and the more includes "IMMATURE". Three of our four sons have ADHD, and we waited until they were almost 18 for them to get their license. Of all three - only one has been ticketed for an accident. (Another son had a minor accident in a parking lot.) When I think about them driving at 16 - I shudder. Of course I think kids in general get their license to early in the US. http://www.goaskmom.com ADHD boys are notorious for being “easily distracted, forgetfulness, having difficulty focusing on one task, being impatient,” and the more includes “IMMATURE”. Three of our four sons have ADHD, and we waited until they were almost 18 for them to get their license. Of all three – only one has been ticketed for an accident. (Another son had a minor accident in a parking lot.) When I think about them driving at 16 – I shudder. Of course I think kids in general get their license to early in the US.

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