With summer officially here, that means more road trips and potential long car rides. It means more time to get distracted behind the wheel or picking up your phone to text someone. I want to convince you not to do that.
We all know texting and driving is dangerous, yet we’re all so easily distracted and provoked by our phones and it’s time we make a pact with ourselves to finally put it to rest and get back to safe driving. With that said, here are a few ideas on how to stop:
1. Practice Makes Perfect
Make it a habit that you don’t grab your phone vs being the habit of grabbing it every time it rings or buzzes.
2. Put Your Phone On Silent or Do Not Disturb
I don’t just mean vibrate, I mean silent or do not disturb mode so you won’t hear the notifications and run the risk of grabbing your phone.
3. Keep It In The Back Seat or Trunk
Seriously, if you can’t be trusted with the phone anywhere near the front seat, then before you start driving, leave it in your purse and stick that on the backseat or in the trunk.
How do you keep yourself from texting and driving?
This isn’t a sponsored post, this is me wanting to see a change and see others driving safer and less distracted.
I hate to admit that this is a bad habit of mine but only when I am in the car alone. When I am driving with my son or others I keep my phone in my purse and out of reach.
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I think that’s totally normal! It’s like we get bored when we’re by ourselves in the car and that’s how we’ve become habit to entertaining ourselves.
I love these suggestions!
Thanks, girl!
My phone sits in my purse when I drive, and my purse is usually in the back seat or in the passenger side! I am especially more careful when Sophie is in the car with me!
liz @ j for joiner
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Incidentally, I am reading this as I sit with my family in the living room. We’re not chatting, catching up on the events of the day. We are sitting together, worlds apart with devices in our faces. Gosh it’s sad how technology obsessed we’ve become. I have to remember that I survived many years without a cell phone (in those prehistoric days when we rode dinosaurs). I can surely do without the damn thing for as long as it takes to drive to my destination. Thanks for this great reminder. 🙂
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Such an important post. I leave my phone in my purse in the back seat, so I’m not tempted. It’s too scary to think of the consequences.
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Seriously, its so scary when you’re walking or driving and see how many people are on phones not even looking AS THEYRE DRIVING!!
I agree with all of the tips especially the putting it on silent. I think people should not check their phones at red lights either because they can still get sucked in once the light turns!
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These are great tips! I always put my phone away so that I’m not even tempted to grab my phone and look at or respond to text messages when I’m behind the wheel. It’s usually not a problem for me, even when my phone is within reach, though. Cell phone use while driving really bothers me.
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My phone always stay away when I’m in the car! Great message to share!
Great tips Katie! It honestly scares me when I’m out on the road and I see so many people texting and driving or looking at their phones while driving. My husband is a cop and he sees tragedies happen way too often, so I definitely am on board with the no texting and driving initiative.
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Ugh Its a horrible habit and I am really trying to be better
Such great tips, especially just putting the phone completely out of reach. It’s such a dangerous habit!
Perfect. I passed it on.
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I can’t stand how often I see people staring down at their phone while driving. I want to run up and bang on all their windows and yell at them to pay attention to what they’re doing! I never actually would, of course, because that would probably cause an accident.
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I love it!
I’m totally against multitasking and that’s a very dangerous one.
I just leave my phone out of reach, period.
I love these tips; I keep my phone in my purse, zipped, and in the passenger or back seat.
I wish people could often put their often in silent when driving. I’m not drinking yet, I’m just started taking my drinking classes and I notice how dangerous it is to drive and text. Good reminder and nice post which I’ll share with my boyfriend…
Michelle
Id add two more words:
COLD TURKEY.
OK 4 more:
JUST PUT IT AWAY 🙂
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Yup. It just isn’t worth the risk!
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