Outline of My Ninth Oral Presentation
Children & Road Rage
This is a presentation of Road Rage and Aggressive Driving
By: Dr. Leon James and Dr. Diane Nahl, Prometheus Books, February 28, 2005, Pgs. 151-167.
Instructions for this oral presentation are found at:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy22/g22-oral.htm
I. ROAD RAGE NURSERY
A)
- Road rage is passed from generation to generation.
- Children mimic what they see their parents do and other adults doing.
- They will repeat what they hear their parents saying.
B)
- I was shocked to read the dialogue between the two women who get into an accident and the little girl starts yelling at the lady because of what she heard her mom yelling.
- It is sad how parents subject their children to such bad behavior.
C)
- An example of children learning road rage would be if a child saw his father giving the finger to someone for cutting them off and then the child would do the same to other cars.
II. HOW TO TEACH A NEW GENERATION
A)
- We need to help children develop emotional intelligence as future drivers.
- Parents need to model appropriate behavior.
- Should reward good behavior as well as punishing the bad.
- Verbal rewards and material rewards are effective ways of encouraging appropriate passenger behavior.
B)
- I support the idea of rewarding good behavior. I think it is very effective.
- I think teaching children is a major step in erasing road rage.
C)
- An example of a verbal reward would be something like: “Thank you for being a good passenger today” “You wore your seatbelt the entire trip, so I felt you were safe.”
III. CHILDREN
AGAINST ROAD RAGE (CARR)
A)
- Founded in 1997
- Parents/ teachers can find a variety of anti-road rage awareness activities to keep children from being the next generation of aggressive drivers.
- Helps make children more aware passengers
B)
- It is a good step to teaching children appropriate behavior.
- It allows children to decide to make the right decisions.
C)
- Some examples of exercises would be observing and rating other drivers behaviors.
Helpful Links:
www.unece.org/trans/roadsafe/rs4aggr.html
highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:86806843&refid=ink_pubnews
