{"id":5351,"date":"2011-03-14T07:54:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2011-03-14T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:54:47","slug":"parents-pass-on-road-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5351","title":{"rendered":"Parents Pass on Road Rage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has to be one of the biggest non-stories you could ever have.<\/p>\n

The AA has done a poll. Now, it isn’t clear if it is the AA who have concluded this, or if it is the media trying to make a boring story slightly less boring, but…<\/p>\n

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Parents are passing on road rage habits to their learner-driver children… <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What misleading clap-trap! How do they pass it on? In their wills? Do they “bequeath” the skill to their offspring?<\/p>\n

Everyone knows that children pick up habits and behaviours from people around them as they grow up – parents, friends, TV. Everything. Not just road rage, and not just when it comes to driving.<\/p>\n

EVERYTHING.<\/p>\n

And the behaviour is cultural. You go near one of those estates where they use the garden instead of a dustbin and you’ll see ten times more of this behaviour. Conversely, stop out side a school and you’ll see a dramatic increase in the CAUSE of such behaviour as diminuitive women in illegally- (and badly) parked BMW X3s and X5s try to mow down other people’s kids once they’ve picked up their own.<\/p>\n

And another thing: why this crusade against road rage, as if someone who gets annoyed at morons trying to kill them is a child molester or something?<\/p>\n

It is perfectly natural to get angry with people who cut you up and force you to brake or swerve.<\/p>\n

The campaign should be against the morons – not against the rest of us.<\/p>\n

EDIT 14\/3\/2011: <\/strong> Just adding this next bit later in the day – the same story is covered in Autoblog, but with considerably more commonsense and less childish, sensationalist editorial spin. <\/p>\n

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Speeding, tailgating, driving one-handed and a tendency for road rage are among the top 10 faults many learners copy from their mother and father. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The original AA survery is still superficial – but at least it isn’t saying what the original source suggested it was. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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