Press: How Do You Get Kids to Heed Danger Signs?

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Accidents happen. Taking risks hastens them. We’re not accusing anybody of anything, but we feel an agony for the family and friends of 14-year-old Issac Norris and his mom, Glenda. Issac was killed one week ago when the car his mother was driving was slammed by a 2006 Ford Mustang driven by a local 19-year-old. Reports at the scene on Kathleen Avenue indicated the possibility that the Mustang driver and a 17-year-old driving a 2006 Subaru Impreza might have been racing, though police haven’t concluded their investigation and no charges have been filed. But here’s our point: Something horrible happened involving those three vehicles, one boy is dead and his mother is in a Seattle hospital, and we can’t help but think that today, they should both be alive and well — Coeur d’Alene Press.

Question (posed by the Coeur d’Alene Press editorialist): So how do we older people break through the veneer of invulnerability that has accompanied youngsters forever?