More than one trumps common sense.

The morning paper announced another tragedy of youth being killed. What a sad stay of affairs when one almost says that at least it was not another gun related murder. The death of a young person is sad regardless of the cause. Preventable deaths produce the tragedy. Car accidents would fall in that category of preventable.

Dave Barry is my favorite humorous columnist. He wrote once and I will not even try to quote. Your teenage boy by himself is a reasonable, responsible, generally bright young man. Bur if you have two teenage boys together you need to add their mental powers divide by two and cut that in half. If you add a third then it is reduce by another half and so on instill you get the brain power of your ordinary dog who normally still maintains his/her survival responses which is more than you say for a pack of teenage boys.

High schoolers and frequently middle school age teens do spend more unstructured time during the summer. 90% of the time that is great and part of growing up and enjoying being young. But we still need to caution our children about too much goofy around and making unsafe choices. They get tired of hearing it and you get tried of saying. But it would be better to continue to be annoying then to say it one too few times.