Smart Decisions and Choices

Smart Decisions and Choices

This prom season we will be with students in more than 35 high schools in eight counties all across our Piedmont Triad area as part of our Safe Sober Prom Night  program.   The program is more than just don’t drink and drive or use drugs -  it is a program of success based on smart choices.

      Our Daggett Shuler team enjoys spending time with our  local high school students at all of the schools.  Wow, are they impressive!  As impressive as our students are, we are also starkly reminded of the need for continuing encouragement and support.  Teens today face incredible peer pressure.  We need to use and turn this power of peer pressure into a positive direction.

Unfortunately, much of the daily peer pressure facing our students is not as neutral.  Left uncontrolled or not channeled in a proper direction it can often be negative and damaging.  Among the pressures our teens face daily are alcohol, drugs, and sexually activity.

People (teens and adults alike) give in to the temptations of peer pressure for a number of reasons. We’re all afraid of rejection and of being teased by others. Teens particularly want to fit in, or to just be cool.  Peers influence your life, even if you don't realize it, just by spending time with you.  As students readily observe, “You become who you hang with!”

Positive peer pressure can be incredibly powerful too!  Positive, supportive and loyal friendships can lead to academic success, sharpening of social skills, and the willingness to experience new cultures and activities.

We can have an enormous influence on our teen generation by encouraging and supporting positive peer pressure.  We  can encourage positive behaviors and  friendships.

      Most of all, positive peer pressure leads to good decisions and choices that are the building blocks of satisfying and fulfilling lives.

22 Years of Safe Sober Prom Night!

22 Years!

It’s finally here!  The 2012 prom season is here!  Our Daggett Shuler team is excited for the 22nd year of our Safe Sober Prom Night Program.

We founded SSPN in 1991.  In what we do professionally  we all too often see the destruction and tragedy done to children, families and individuals by drinking and driving.  We believed that we were in a unique position in our community to address this issue, and so Safe Sober prom Night was born.  We really never dreamed it would be so successful for all these years.

We have used a two prong attack.  First, we believe that young people need continual reminders of the dangers of drinking and driving.  Second, is to help create an environment of positive peer pressure to help encourage our students in the right direction.

The SSPN program has become part of the values and culture at our firm.  In fact, when we start going to the high schools starting this week our entire Daggett Shuler will be involved reflecting their high personal levels of commitment .  We will personally visit more than 35 high schools and give away more close to 15,000 t-shirts in the triad area.

Over the years, SSPN has won a number of significant awards in additional to local recognition.  The program has been awarded the Governor’s Highway Safety Program Public safety award, as well as the American Bar Association Award for Dignity in Lawyer Advertising.

Of course, the most significant award is from the students who now think Safe Sober is “cool” and proudly participate year to year.  Encourage our young people to go to virtual pledge  that students can take on-line, and of course there are lots of other goodies there too.

Please join our students and our Daggett Shuler Team in make this year the safest prom season ever!