Driving with Teenagers

According to an article in the September 25th, 2009 edition of USA Today titled, "Teen's driving tied to folks", two studies showed that parents have a big effect on how safely their kids drive. I am always amazed that people conduct studies just to prove the obvious. But anyway, a quote for the article says this:

"The real message of this paper is that parents matter," says Ken Ginsburg, associate professor of pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and author of one of the papers. "If you take this seriously and you are an active parent that gives appropriate rules and boundries combined with warmth and support, you can actually make a tremendous difference."

Well I'll be darned. Really? Parents are important and if you love your kids and give them rules, it actually makes a difference? Who would've thought? Of course this only applies to how your kids drive. Too bad it doesn't work in other areas of their lives because if it did, we'd probably all do it. Yea, right.