Having your Teens avoid Road Accidents

It is just a plain and sad reality that there is a significant percentage that involves teenagers in road accidents and some of which are actually fatal. You have to admit that there despite what the local DMV implements to ensure safety on the road the discipline should really start right from your own home. Teenagers as we all know can be very hard to handle most especially when it comes to discipline and much more when it comes to driving discipline. If you are not strict with your teens with other things then this might be a good time to really establish some rules:

Absolutely no drinking alcohol

You are going to need to have an open discussion about this with your son or daughter. Unfortunately some parents would find having this talk tedious. There are a lot of arrests that were made on the road that involved teenagers getting behind the wheel while under the influence. This would then have an impact on the license that they may still be working hard for to get. For some states this would even result to immediate suspension of a license.

Buckle-up

Seem simple enough but you may be surprised how many people are still failing to do this. This is a simple contraption that has been developed through the years that is designed to save people’s lives in the event of a road accident. This is basically a habit that needs to be developed early on. It is important to make sure that the habit is something that your teens had gotten used to. This may also be a saving factor in their driving exam.

No Cellphones

This is another rule that needs to be implemented badly as the no alcohol rule. A study shows that surprisingly, man is not really designed to drive. This is why we see a lot of road accidents from time to time. Adding to the focus required to drive are other tasks that some people intend to accomplish while driving like putting on lipstick and using their phones. Imagine the level of concentration that is required in sending one small text message and couple this with operating a car even at a modest speed of 30km/h, this can spell disaster.

10PM Curfew

According to the more recent study, most road accidents involving teens happen at night. Given this thought, you may want to take out the possibility of your son or daughter being on the road after 10PM.

To know more about DUI you can check out this website: http://www.dmv.com/dui.

Credit Score Fix

How many times have you actually looked back in your finances and wondered how on earth you failed to save anything? This is because you were not able to look into your finances closely and you have been spending money without any consideration to your budget whatsoever. When I say consideration to your budget, I just don’t mean setting aside money so you will be able to have enough money until the next payday. I mean this should include each and every expense that you make and you need to evaluate if they are actually needed or not.

The first thing is you need to really put everything into paper. Start with the expenses you had in the past week and start going back from there. List down all your expenses each day and set it against to the actual money spent in the last week. This is the time of surprise how much difference it is when you compare the 2. It would usually turn out that we find it easy to spend money on small things when we know we just got paid and we have more than enough until the next payday. This is the time you start trimming down on unnecessary expenses.

The next thing you need to do is to look into your past credit standing. You can do this by looking into your credit reports. You do have free ones annually. You can look into your records as old as 7 years and if you want to settle it this would be the best way to do it. If you are going to ask the question “why would you want to settle?” then the simple answer is; for your credit score. Now it is quite hard to do the computation on your own. It is very complicated but the concept is relatively simple. Allow yourself to look into the negative items and try to repair it to bring your scores up.

Acquire the set of records that you have. Make sure that you get all records from all 3 companies (TransUnion, Experian and Equifax). This way you will get a comprehensive report that will show all accounts tagged under your name. You can then set aside the ones that are pulling your scores down. These will be the accounts which have been closed due to non payment and accounts that have delayed payments as well. You can start disputing these items using dispute fax. All you have to do then is to prepare all the documents that would help you get the items taken out of your credit report. If you don’t do this, you would have to wait 7 years before they are expunged off your records. If you want to stay on top of your finances, it is time to make changes and not to mention your future loans will be approved with great interest rates.

Visit this website to get a free credit scores: http://www.dmv.com/free-credit-score.