In order to make our daily commute to and from school each day more productive I have begun teaching my charge about the various meanings behind traffic colors…

Red means STOP!

Yellow means slooooooooooooooow down

Green means GO!

Orange means caution

This has led to a barrage of inevitably enthusiastic shouts from the backseat throughout our car ride helping me to identify traffic light signals. While I usually find this kind of driving assistance helpful in the case of the ear drum shattering decibel in which the updates are relayed the news of a changing light can in fact be quite unsettling and I fear could lead to an eventual orange-type situation. I am not complaining mind you – it is a vast improvement over the verbal labeling that went on a few months ago (see entry My Tiny Brother P-Touch from March 2011).