We have the Purple Car. Tom can his learner’s permit after his next birthday (October 31) and then someone will have to take him driving. The driving school manager gave out a book with suggestions for how to help your teen practice his skills.
My father was a flight instructor in the Navy, among his other jobs, and he said teaching 22-year-old guys to land planes on carriers in the dark was less stressful than teaching my brother and me to drive. Maybe he figured he’d die nice and fast if they went SPLAT on the flight deck.
I took Jean and Tom out the local elienmentry school for several hour od practice driving for 4 weekends BEFORE either got on the road.
Had them back up through the whole parking lot with the boat trailer, “park” the car in every one of 50 parking slots in a row, parallel park 8 times in a row, hit the brakes in (fake) emergency stops, start and stop, cross “streets”, start and stop in the manual gears, etc. every weekend without me in the car -> so they would get used to “driving” and controlling the car in an empty lot in different weather conditions before they started on the road when they (me!) had to worry about other cars.