High Impact Mom » KY http://www.highimpactmom.com Food, Family, and Fun in the South! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:56:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Toyota Driving Expectations Comes to Kentuckiana http://www.highimpactmom.com/toyota-driving-expectations-comes-to-kentuckiana/ http://www.highimpactmom.com/toyota-driving-expectations-comes-to-kentuckiana/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:14:14 +0000 Amanda http://www.highimpactmom.com/?p=3629 If you’re a parent of a teenage driver and live in the Kentuckiana area you might be interested to learn that Toyota and Bass Pro Shops have teamed together to bring you Toyota Driving Expectations, a free 2.5 hour defensive-driving initiative designed to put newly permitted and licensed teens and their parents behind the wheel on multiple driving courses and into the classroom for instruction. Since its inception in 2004, more than 14,000 teens and parents in 19 U.S. cities have successfully completed the program which was developed in collaboration with the National Safety Council.

For teens ages 16-19, Toyota Driving Expectations goes beyond what is currently taught in typical driver’s training classes in order to help them identify and react to dangerous driving situations. To better understand the critical relationship between distractions and reaction time, teens navigate a driving course while drinking water, listening to loud music and talking on a cell phone. They also experience hard-braking maneuvers on wet and dry pavement, and maneuver through multiple slalom courses under the watchful eyes of professional drivers.  For parents, the experience offers insight into some of the problems facing teen drivers and provides creative approaches for effective coaching.

Toyota Driving Expectations will be held at Bass Pro Shops’ parking lot, located at 951 E. Lewis & Clark Parkway in Clarksville, Ind., on October 9-10. The first class begins at 9:30 a.m.

Space is limited, so register early.

For more information and to register, please visit: www.toyotadrivingexpectations.com.

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Jon and I have always brought our daughters with us to vote, we find it opens up new, previously unexplored (or forgotten) conversations about our country’s democratic system, other country’s political systems, and great conversations about our personal beliefs and motivations behind the vote.  Because it has opened up new avenues of conversation for us and has encouraged an interest in KG, last year she was determined to watch the Presidential Inauguration during school.  I was interested to see how she responded this year to the election commercials, especially since Jon’s man for the Senate Rand Paul was running.  Since we’ve been so involved in after-school activities, there has been little time for television so KG has been spared the majority of the political mud-slinging. Yet she knows why Jon is for Rand, why I support whom I do, and the positives and negatives of their opponents (Jon’s a Republican and I’m a Democrat). She’s got a never-ending string of questions where each candidate is concerned and is very interested in each candidate’s view on education reform…but that’s only because she hears Mommy harping on it all the time.

No surprise when today she looked forward to voting with us and rode down with Daddy early this evening.  As usual she’s full of questions about how the machines work and what happens if you hit the wrong button, so I know she kept Jon talking the entire time.  Between wanting to know if she could do the voting, what happened to the people who didn’t win, and how they counted the ballots KG kept us thinking and kept us talking.  What a great opportunity to pass along a little knowledge and the understanding that voting is a right and a responsibility.

Do you talk to your kids about voting? How do you get them interested in the democratic process?

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    • ]]>     In continuing with our patriotic theme from last week, we are going to learning about Abraham Lincoln this week.  As our 16 president and fellow KY native, Abraham Lincoln provides an unusual close up of an American president and encourages KG to be further interested in our country’s history.

    We will be reading several books pertaining to Abraham Lincoln, including Abe Lincoln Remembers and If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln {affiliate link}. We will, of course, be getting these from our local library on Monday.  We are also planning a trip to Hodgensville this weekend to visit President Lincoln’s birthplace.  In addition to her spelling lists and math worksheets, we’ll be looking at famous quotes by the famous President.

    Here is a breakdown of the upcoming week:

    Abraham Lincoln Themed Week

    Monday: Storytime @ our local library–Check out Abraham Lincoln books

    Spelling List 2 / Journal Entry / Reading Aloud

    Tuesday: Spelling List / Math Worksheet / Reading Aloud-Abe Lincoln book

    Wednesday: Spelling List /  Math Worksheet / Read Aloud-Abe Lincoln book

    Thursday: Blueberry Picking / Swimming @ Grammy and Poppaw’s house

    Friday: Silly Safari @ local library

    Journal Writing / Read aloud

    Saturday: Visit President Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace

    Sunday: Day of Rest. Church and lunch with family and friends for Hubby’s birthday.

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