Outline of My Second Oral Presentation
“Raging Children”
This is a presentation of Road Rage and Aggressive Driving. James, Dr. Leon and Dr. Diane Nahl. New York: Prometheus Books, 2000. pages 151-166.
By Davis Hanai
Instructions for this oral presentation are found at:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy21/409a-g21-oral.htm
I. Roads Rage Nursery
A. Definition- The backseat of the car is where road rage and aggressive driving is inherited by children from their parents.
B. Explanation- “Kids do whatever their parents do, they say the things they hear older kids and adults saying, and their emotional reactions are shaped by mimicking adult feelings.”
C. Example- Children repeating the cuss words and derogatory statements that you say unconsciously while driving.
D. Cultural and Psychological Aspects- Long-time drivers often operate an automobile almost unconsciously. This also means unconscious bad driving behaviors may be witnessed by children. We also live in a culture in that allows road rage to be tolerated and be passed from generation to generation.
E. Education- This concept could be taught in parenting classes and also in elementary schools.
II. CARR (Children Against Road Rage)
A. Definition- An organization dedicated to contain and reverse the road rage epidemic by educating children to become better future drivers.
B. Explanation- CARR’s main goal is to “involve children in training for emotional intelligence as future drivers” through various anti-road rage activities.
C. Example- To promote awareness of when and where children are exposed to aggressive driving, CARR says that children can use tape recorders, video recorders, or writing to produce self-witnessing reports.
D. Cultural and Psychological Aspects- CARR first started as interactive web site dedicated to collecting and promoting a driving psychology learning curriculum for children.
E. Education- The ideals of CARR could be implemented in elementary schools as simple take home projects to be done with their parents.
III. Drivers Behaving Badly
A. Definition- Scenes on television depicting aggressive driving habits.
B. Explanation- These scenes often lull us to a false sense of security about taking unrealistic risks, consequences of bad driving, risk of injury from car accidents, etc.
C. Example- Tiny Toon Adventures and 101 Dalmations
D. Cultural and Psychological Aspects- It is our culture and society that values risk taking and the “need for speed”. Children are easily influenced by what they see on TV as “cool”.
E. Education- This term could be taught at home at in elementary schools to make children more aware of the dangerously distorted view of life they sometimes get from TV.
My Home Page:www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409af2004/hanai/home.htm
Some Helpful Links:
http://www.drdriving.org/youth/
http://www.angelfire.com/nj3/driverseducation/ a site about road rage