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Have a Teen? Check Out Toyota’s FREE Teen Driver Safety Clinics

I am a member of the Stiletto Media Blogger Network. This is a sponsored post written for #TeenDrive365 and the Toyota Teen Driver Safety Clinic. However, all thoughts and opinions expressed herein are my own. For more information on the Toyota Teen Driver Safety Clinic, please visit http://bit.ly/1nfUJ0e

My oldest son is only 12 but already talking about looking forward to driving. If I can be perfectly honest, the idea makes me nervous. I know it’s a step in growing up and my son gaining his independence but so many things can happen in a car, right?! I have one cousin that just recently started driving last year and another one that will be driving within the next year or two. There are several things different from when I started driving. I mean, texting and driving was pretty much unheard of when I started driving. Heck, I’m not even sure if I knew what a text was when I was 16. (I know that dates me but..)

Toyota dealerships are offering FREE Teen Driver Safety Clinics. They are 2.5 hour sessions of non-driving but interactive sessions. These clinics will go beyond the basics and educate you and your teen on Defensive Driving “universal truths” and best practices, car operations safety features and basic maintenance fundamentals, Dangerous Driving Distractions and How to Avoid Them, and more. There’s also info for parents on effective driving communication and coaching.

When I think back on learning to drive….you know what…scratch that…when I think about the last almost 20 years I’ve been driving it wasn’t until last year that someone told me that there is a helpful little sticker on the inside of my drivers door to tell me how many psi’s to inflate my tires too. I seriously did not know that. I would go through the drivers manual of my car and get frustrated every time I had to try to find it. I’d even ask people and they’d say “oh it should be in your drivers manual”. You know when I found out? Last year I was driving to work on a weekend. I got about half way to work and lost control of my car. When I finally got my car to where I could pull over somewhere safely I got out to try to figure out what the heck happened. I realized my back drivers tire was completely flat. I was about to pump it up at a gas station and a nice truck driver, obviously seeing the perplexed look on my face as I’m looking through my manual, comes over to me and locates the sticker on my door for me. Seriously! Why didn’t someone show me that 19 years ago!? Please show this to your kids. They’ll need to know for safety and in emergencies like mine.

Check out this short video too of the Toyota Teen Driver Safety Clinics:

If you are interested in attending this FREE and valuable session with your teen and are in the New York or New Jersey area you can register at a local Toyota dealership here: http://bit.ly/1nfUJ0e

Please feel free to share this post with someone you know who could benefit from this.

Tell me one thing you wish you knew before you started driving

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Free Things to do in Ocean City, MD

My family and I will be heading to Ocean City, MD soon and we can’t wait. Did you know that Ocean City, MD is #5 in the top 10 US vacation spots as published by Trip Advisor? It’s true. It’s been years since we’ve gone to Ocean City, MD so for months I’ve been planning, figuring out a budget, making a list of things we’ll want or need to take with us, etc. (I’m a planner, I can’t help it). Ocean City is also known as one of the best family beach vacation spots for the North East area.

Anywho, in my research I found that there are actually tons of low cost and even free things to do in Ocean City, MD. I mean stuff you’d actually want to see and do! Once thing at the top of our list is movies on the beach. For 2014, there seem to be three different locations up and down Ocean City that are hosting these movies on the beach. The Carousel, Princess Royale, and movies on he beach at 27th street. They’re free! Just bring your chairs, blankets, or towels and sit on the beach and watch a movie. Check the days because each one does it on a different day. You could actually do this a few times depending on how long you’re staying there. Honestly I’ve heard of this being done other places too. They did similar thing when we went to Myrtle Beach. This would truly be a unique a memorable experience. Tips from veteran OC tourists tell you to take a flashlight too so you can find your things once the movies over. (They can’t just turn the lights on right?)

There are free concerts at the beach on the boardwalk. Just bring chairs or blankets and enjoy the sound while catching a summer ocean breeze.

Don’t be afraid to search for events too. My oldest son is a real outdoorsman. He was excited to find out that the White Marlin Open will be going on while we’re in OC. By doing just a little research we found out that spectators can go to the marina between 4-9 pm each day of the event to see the anglers bringing in White Marlin to be weighed. My son is so dead set on going to this. It’s free. We even found out that you can catch a shuttle over from the convention center which will be nice for me to avoid some traffic.

There seem to be a few parks and playgrounds in the area too. Even a dog playground!

There are beach fireworks displays and even a light show. I would have loved to see that but unfortunately the dates don’t align with our time in OC. Definitely check it out though if you happen to be there for one of the displays.

Of course there is the beach for lots of free fun: swimming, playing in the sand, collecting shells, beach volleyball, etc.

I found these sites to be great resources for our trip and will hopefully help you too:

—ococean.com

—ocean-city.com

—ocisfree.com

Have you been to Ocean City, MD? What did you like to do while you were there? Did you have a favorite place to eat?

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