Road Rules

Sea Cards - New Certification Edition: Learn & Review Your Sailing Knowledge with 450+ Color-Coded Nautical Flash Cards (All skill levels, beginning to advanced) Free upgrade offer!
$24.95
SeaCards New Certification Edition has everything you need to learn from basic to advanced. Using these cards is more convenient that reading a book as you can carry them around with you and easily flip to terms you need to keep practicing (5 stars).

Rules of the Road: A Complete Driver's Ed Course
$39.95
I checked this DVD out at my local library (along with a copy of "The New California Drivers Test Made Easy" and the DMV handbook) to help me study for the DMV's written and driving test. It provides the material pretty well. The target audience is younger teens in high school going for their youth permit, but can also help with young adults, adults, and seniors.

All the driving materials, laws, regulations, and driving tests are mentioned and covered. There's even a "Show me more" option, which goes into detail about what was mentioned with a detailed 3D diagram with multi-angle options to see it from a different perspective. Sometimes this felt unnecessary, but other cases it helped me.

Although the bit with the State Trooper on the "Alcohol and Driving" bit felt worn out and melodramatic. Yes, it addresses an issue that is a serious problem, but I personally know not to drink and drive, so to me it was telling me not to do I didn't plan on anyway. Even if I did, I would have dismissed it as nothing. "Red Asphalt" seems to be more convincing with it's true graphic nature.

The humor on this is pretty dry and cheesy, but I expected this, as ALL educational videos have bland and cheesy humor. After all, I'm not watching this to be entertained.

DO NOT purchase this DVD unless you are teaching a Driver's Ed class. After you or your child are successful with getting your/their license, the DVD is pretty much done and useless. My local city library had this DVD available for check out for no additional fee.

Making of Road Rules [VHS]
$12.98
Although I liked the information that was revealed about how the show is put together. I was hoping to see something new about the cast.

Rules of the Road
$7.99
To start off, this is a very short read. I'd say it's a great book to read in between two larger, more complex books, because it is nice break from everything.

The story is a very cute one I must say. One that I have never read before and one that not many could pull off...but Joan Bauer did. Its not the ordinary love story, or tragic tale of a misfit teen.

Jenna is a teenage girl who "worships" her drivers license, yet she doesn't have a car to drive. But that doesn't mean she isn't trying to get one, she is saving her money for the car of her dreams...a red convertible. She works at the Gladstone Shoe store in her hometown, Chicago. She's sixteen and the best employee there. She works hard because that's really the only place she can be at and be completely happy. Her life turned sour when her father started drinking too much and that eventually ended her parents marriage, but that was when she was younger and yet those bad memories still follow her around. Now at sixteen she deals with her fathers sudden visits and drunken phone calls, which are making her go crazy. Luckily for her, there's a chance to get away...

That summer she becomes Mrs. Gladstone's driver from Chicago, Illinois to Dallas, Texas. They travel to dozens of places, visiting dozens of Gladstone Shoe Stores. And they encounter many problems along the way. Mrs. Gladstone's son is threatening to sell the company and there's a fight to the finish to see who exactly will control Gladstone Shoes in the end.

This is a compelling story of a young woman who is tired of the life she is living and is ready for a change. And ready to stand up to her father's drinking problem once and for all.

A fast read, that may not look all that interesting, but its better than it seems. Give it a shot.