Enough is Enough
January 21, 2010
Filed under Parenting & Family Posts, Products & Services
All you Melbournites saw Sunday’s horrendous crash that took 5 young lives and shattered 
dozens of other lives, right?
The police urge parents to step in and find out where their children were going and how they were getting there. I gotta tell ya, at 16, 17, 18, 19 – if you don’t have the kind of relationship where that’s already happening, it ain’t gonna start now.
Folks, help me help some Dads save some lives. Some of you must know a Dad in Melbourne with sons about to hit adolesence, or Dad who’s got one son already doing stupid stuff and wants to do something about the next son not following in his brother’s footsteps. TELL THEM TO CONTACT ME! Someone must know a business looking to improve their public profile as an awesome supporter of families and youth welfare: TELL THEM TO CONTACT ME!
Please, we actually can do something about changing this! In just one weekend, we can keep/start the ball rolling in the right direction for 15 young men and their dads.
I work in a school where a student was killed in a similar accident. One year later and the entire school is still feeling the effects and the younger brother is really struggling. If one weekend can move families in the right direction it will be valuable to far more than the 15 young men and their families.
That is tragic, Jonathan. One death in this manner is too many. The really really stupid thing is that at least 3 people have been nabbed by police AT THE SCENE of this accident in teh five the days since for crazy or drunk driving. Then outside the actual funeral of one of the guys killed, a guy in his 40s (I think) is caught drink driving.
People are stupid, unless they’re taught not to be.
I’m right behind you, Pete.
Having a house full of boys terrifies me. I hope I have and can continue to build this relationship with my kids.
Sometimes, it’s not my kids I’m worried about, but other idiots on the road at the same time as my kids.
It’s a horrible, horrible tragedy.
The other idiots are the real worry. I”m wondering whether enrolling the 18 year old in a defensive driving course (like I did back in the 80s) as a condition of paying for the license test might be another piece of the puzzle.