arents need ta

IT has apparently been
proven that children
learn by example and
we here in Bonehead
City aren’t setting very
good ones.

Worse, boneheads are
sometinies parents too.

Ics astonishing, that hur-
ried and hartied parents will
pick up their kids from
Rockhead Elementary by
speeding through a 30-kilo-
metre-per-hour schoal zone
and come toa screeching
halt in a No Stopping zone.

Nor is it too cool that
parents then speed off to the
grocery store and onty avoid

Chrysier recaiis m

DAIMLER-
CHRYSLER
announced this week
the voluntary recall of
996,939 minivans —
model years 1994-95,

The American car manu-
facturer recalled the vehicles
so they could perform an air
bag system diagnostic check
for wiring shorts.

The recall action affects
the Dodge Caravan,
Plymouth Voyager — and
Chrysler Town & Country
vehicles.

The recall was prompted,
by about 35 field reports of
inadvertent deployment of
driver’s-side air bags caused by
a short in the wiring harness.

Most of the air bag deploy-
ments occurred when the
vehicle was started.

There have been no
reports of serious injury or
death caused by the prema-
ture deployment of the air
bags.

This action is unrelated to
recent reports chat the
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration is
studying test data to deter-
mine if passenger-side air bags
in Chrysler minivans pose a
risk of potential injury to small
adults.

Owners of the vehicles are
expected to be notified in
about 2 month.

Any shorts identified dur-
ing the diagnostic check will
be repaired.

Meanwhile Chrysler
Canada Ltd. reported April
deliveries of 20,231 passenger
cars and trucks compared with
the 24,806 vehiches sold in the
same month last year.

The company’s dealers
across Canada delivered 6,927
cars in Apnl compared with
the 7,573 sold in the corre-
sponding month one year
ago.

April deliveries of 13,304
trucks compared with 17, 233
sold in the same month last
year.

Sales of the company’
Canadian-builr Chrysler
Intrepid, Concorde, LHS and
300M in April were 14% high-
er than in the same month one
year ago.

April sales of the compact
Chrysler Cirrus and Sebring
Convertible established
records for the month.

Deliveries of 80,647 cars
and trucks during the first
four months of 1999 com-

Shaun
Conlin

signals

killing other schoot kids for
the fact that they spend more
time in the air after hitting a
speed bump just so.

Bat those are thoughtless
bad driving habits. Some
folks shouldn't even be
teaching their kids to walk.

pared with the 88,595 vehi-
cles sold in the same period
last year — a decline of 7,948
or 29.9% drop.

Year-to-date deliveries of
24,754 cars compared with
27,439 sold in the first four
months of 1998.

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Look folks, if you can’t
drive worth a fick vou
shouldn't be teaching your
teen the cules of the road.

Likewise, tf vou don’t
know hew to walk across the
street smartly, safely and law:
fully, you shouldn’: be toting
your tads by the hand while
daing so.

More perplexing than the
speed and dangerous laziness
of some parents who choose
to disregard parking reguia-
dons — thereby increasing,
the risk and reducing the vis-
ibility of all apres-school-
trenzy folk involved — is the
way these same parents are
teaching their children to

ni-vans

Sales of 55,893 trucks
compared with 61,}56 deliv-
ered in the January-through-
April period one year cartier.

The numbers — a decline
of 5,263 sales — show a drop
of 9.4% of truck sales in the
one-year difference.

WAS $26,159"

an 2A, 855 on 288700

$3,529 0.°., F.P. $13,387 “si arse

cross the street.

There’s Mommy and she’s
ina bit of a hurry so she
walks her wide-eyed tvke up
the middle of the read and
beelines him to the back seat
of her illegally parked car.

While she’s at it, she
stuffs the child into the car
from the driver’s side —
walking around the car
Wastes precious seconds, alter
all.

Makes sense when vou
realize that walking all the
way over to the crosswalk
and on further up the street
to the street legal parking
spot uses up a lot of quality
bonding time reserved for
your kids when at home.

If you've got one on
those kids who “you can’t
turn your back on for a sec-
ond,” you may want to
worry a little more the first
time Sally walks down to the
mailbox by herself.

While ve never raised 2
kid, I have been one and I
recall how casy it was to pick
up bad habits.

However, walking down
the middle of the road was

no 26,

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Friday, June 4, 1999 ~ North Shore News - 37

not one of them. Thanks,
Moni. (Come to think of it,
I sceretly believe that my
mother followed ine to
school until f was 17 years
ald in order to ensure that I
crossed streets safely ).

And how often have we
seen a mom and her stroller
and her raddler and her
umbrella valiantly trying, to
find the safest way te jay-
walk? (Hint) Moms, there
ist a safe way 20 jaywalk.).

fs ber frightening and
humorous when mom takes a
mid-street moment to scold
her kid for not hanging on to
her purse strings dghtly
enough. Good grief.

Look, you bonehead par-
ents you, there are some

183 Pemberton Ave.

pay attention at sch

pretty tremendous safety pro-
grams running ar your kids’
schools.

T can reeall “stop, look,
crass” lessons to this day.

Better still, our streets are
strewn with haven’t-learned-
to-read-yet-bur-those-pic-
tures-are-pretty-obvious road
signs telfing every road user
what's cool and what's not.
Walking a kid through your
favourite selection of bad
habits is counter-productive,
“tupid and potentially deadly.

Kids learn by example.

Think twice before you
haul your kid to the car as
the crow flics. Please.

Don’t be a bonchead, tor
your kids sake.

Le safe.

TALEINS

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