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Seattle Mama Doc 101: Teen Texting when Driving

Author: Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, MBE

June 3, 2011  |  School Age, Seattle Mama Doc 101, Teens Comment


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4 Comments to “Seattle Mama Doc 101: Teen Texting when Driving”

  1. BookMama says:
    June 3, 2011 at 9:27 am

    This is such an important message! Thanks for spreading it.

    (Would you believe that a young woman who was texting while driving crashed into my sister-in-law’s HOUSE last month? Thank goodness her youngest kids [teens] and preschooler grandkids weren’t in the yard.)

  2. Wendy Sue Swanson, MD says:
    June 5, 2011 at 2:00 pm

    After the third person congratulated me on getting a new car, I thought I’d just clear the air. Unfortunately, that fancy car in the video is not mine—but rather someone who was helping me film :-) A clean space (even the glove box!!) to demonstrate where we can deposit our phones before we drive. My car? Full of crumbs, abandoned socks, and deflated sports balls…

  3. Nicole says:
    June 9, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    I even needed that reminder. Sometimes I feel like a slave to my phone…it even dings when a new email comes in. I’m going to try and put it in the glove box tomorrow and see how that goes.

    Thanks for the reminder!

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