Children police parents' driving habits

The Advertiser: Children police parents' driving habits :

"In Australia, about 60 per cent of deaths in children, aged between 5 and 14, occur on the roads.

Schools in the Unley area hope the five-week education program will encourage better road safety behaviour. At Highgate Schools, that means an end to parking in no-standing zones, U-turns at lights and ignorance of children's crossings."

When my daughter was at primary school the traffic congestion outside the school became really out of hand and I see that recurring outside schools that I pass on the way home. Some parents just plain ignore the road rules because they think first of their child. The children appear to have a good knowledge of the road and crossing rules. It's a product of adults having to do hundreds of things in one day and being on the treadmill, I am sure. What they did at my daughter's primary school was get a traffic warden to come up on an intermittent basis for a week at a time. She had a jolly hockey sticks approach and made you feel very naughty so that you learnt your lesson well. She was such a stereo type with the clipped speech but the tweed skirt , country woman, cut and dried approach really worked. You couldn't offend her and you couldn't ignore her. I learnt a great deal about people management from her because she was so straight forward, steel reinforced and no nonsense. We mums used to laugh a lot about it, but we all did the right thing and learned to park elsewhere and WALK to the school gate. Much healthier , more sociable and it took about 5 mins more.