bcipam "Also, I remind the newbies to repeat a hazard call. In other words if the person in front say "glass right!" you say "Glass right!" as well all the way down the line."

Exactly. The information goes up and down the line. Last riders call "car back" and the info moves forward, first riders call hazzards and it moves back, if you see a hand signal in front of you, you do it too, hear it from behind, call out.

For kids it might be fun for them to know that they are learning skills pro riders use in the peloton, obviously Pro riders don't need to call out "stopping" "rolling" I guess but it's based on the way information is shared or at least I think so.

Also could be fun for kids to do part of the ride silently. I noticed on our small ride of silence last night, whoah doggies did people use hand signals and eye contact with each other, small hand signals well.

Depends on how far and how many regroups, on our last TE Bay Area gathering I appreciated how Jobob gave a brief intro to the next portion, pointing out we were likely to see. Even when you've done the route before there's stuff we foget and things change....and you can't keep that all in mind from the start.