Talking Text Blog

Texting while driving is an incredibly dangerous problem: A texting driver is 23 times more likely to get into a crash than a non-texting driver (2009, VTTI, Texting Raises Crash Risk 23 Times, Study Finds) 49% of drivers with cell phones under the age of 35 send or read text messages while driving (2011, Harris Poll, Most …

The Mayo Clinic recently put out a “Tween and Teen Health” note entitled Teen texting: Help your teen avoid the risks. In our opinion, their message is right on – if you are concerned about teen texting, there are two basic things you should do: Monitor your teen’s texting habits Set — and enforce — appropriate limits …

Nobody embarks on parenthood thinking “my kid is going to become an addict.” To the contrary, when my husband and I decided to have children, we thought we’d be dealing them a pretty decent gene pool since addiction had not been an issue in our immediate families of origin. We also assumed that as good …

Should you monitor your child’s online activities? This question never fails to get a strong response. When we published some statistics on teen texting a while back, there was a very animated discussion about this. On one side of the discussion are the people who feel that: Parents should trust their children Monitoring is the …

A Massachusetts teenager was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison and loss of his license for 15 years for causing a fatal crash by texting while driving…………  http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/06/12090348-massachusetts-teen-sentenced-to-prison-for-texting-while-driving?lite

As you are reading this document, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of online communication dialogues taking place between your children and their “network” of friends and acquaintances. The frequency and volume of this communication is growing every day and parents have little control or even influence over it. The widespread use of cell …

The husband of a Pleasanton woman found shot to death in her home along with her  13-year-old daughter said his wife had grown “paranoid” about the teenager’s  online communications, police said Tuesday. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/07/BATM1OESIG.DTL#ixzz1uQoqMx33

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A sixteen-year-old girl was charged Thursday with manslaughter, assault, and texting while driving for a September 2011 crash that killed a woman.      http://fox4kc.com/2012/04/19/serious-charges-for-teen-accused-of-texting-in-fatal-accident/

The high-profile campaign against distracted driving, especially among young motorists, has seeped deep into the national culture: April is Distracted Driving Month, and tonight’s season premiere of the Fox teen hit TV show Glee features a distracted driving crash cliffhanger from last season. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-09/distracted-teen-driving-texting/54135840/1

Text messaging continues to increase and doctors are referring to excessive texting as a new addiction. Extreme texting causes a range of problems, from isolation and lack of sleep, to skipping meals and ignoring important daily tasks. http://www.promises.com/articles/teens/teens-texting-addiction/