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...because he cares about you. And what he says, you do.? Now, I don?t know if kids have the support that we had. If you got out of line in your community or village, there were people there to keep you in place, or to tell your mom and dad that you were messing up. That?s not happening now. Your high school coach and teachers used to be the most influential people, now you got AAU coaches and street agents and people like that. Kids have different things that I think sometimes...
...first thing Peter Haugen noticed was that the dents in his mom's car were multiplying. Then the Osterville, Mass., software engineer learned that his mother, 85, had confused the brake and the gas pedal and ended up, unhurt, atop a stone wall. He pleaded with her to stop driving. He spoke to her doctor. He even persuaded her to see a geropsychologist...
Enlisting the aid of their mother's doctor, her minister and the local police, Haugen and his sister persuaded their mom to get a driving assessment at the DriveWise program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She failed. Mom was off the road, and--who knows?--perhaps another fatal accident was averted...
...goal," he says, "is to get people to realize that driving disability is like other diseases. If you pick it up early, you can make drivers safer longer and prevent terrible accidents." And when the disease becomes too advanced, older drivers need to accept, like Peter Haugen's mom, that the best remedy is to get out from behind the wheel...
...broadband video platform on Nick.com lets kids watch full-length episodes of their favorite Nick shows online, sometimes even before they air on cable. Through a deal with Verizon Wireless, Nick loyalists can download three-minute videos of Blue's Clues or other shows on their mom or dad's cell phones. Even the family car is now a Nick zone: in a partnership with General Motors, episodes of Nick's series are programmed into GM Chevy Uplander SUVs equipped with specially designed portable digital systems...