Yourwellness Magazine Follows Up Teen Texting While Driving Study
London, UK (PRWEB UK) 16 July 2013 -- According to the new study, "Don’t Txt n Drive: Teens Not Getting Msg" which was scheduled for presentation May 4th at the Paediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting in Washington, DC, 43% of American high school students admit to texting while driving. This is based on data from 7,800 US high school students who had their driver's license and took part in the 2011 survey on youth behaviours conducted yearly by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. (http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/Txt-n-Drive-Teens-Not-Getting-Msg.aspx)
In an American Academy of Paediatrics news release, Alexandra Bailin, a research assistant at Cohen Children's Medical Centre of New York, commented, “By identifying associated high-risk behaviours such as these, it is our hope that we can develop more effective mechanisms to reduce texting while driving. Although teens may be developmentally predisposed to engage in risk-taking behaviour, reducing the prevalence of texting while driving is an obvious and important way to ensure the health and safety of teen drivers, their passengers and the surrounding public. (http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/Txt-n-Drive-Teens-Not-Getting-Msg.aspx)
With this in mind, Yourwellness Magazine explored how parents can stop teenagers from being addicted to their phones. According to Yourwellness Magazine, “Because our phones enable us to send tweet posts, book seats at the cinema, take pictures and the like, they have become an essential appendage that needs to be carried with us, 24/7. The role of everyday conversation, face-to-face, seems to have been superseded by a finger on the ‘send’ button.”
Yourwellness Magazine gave guidelines to parents who want to reduce their teens’ screen time:
• Discuss why it is necessary to ditch dependency upon the phone
• Eating is a time for talking, discussing and listening – not texting
• Try to limit overall daily usage
• Help them to cope with, and understand, the instant emotional response every time it rings
• Teach how to control the phone rather than the phone controlling them
• Have one day a week when the phone is not used at all
To find out more, visit the gateway to living well at http://www.yourwellness.com, or read the latest issue online at http://latestissue.yourwellness.com.
Michael Kitt, Yourwellness Publishing Ltd, http://www.yourwellness.com, 0208 588 9553, [email protected]
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