They got used to how the cars move and it was old hat to them by the time they turned 16. I didn't make a big deal out of it so neither did they
Cut it in half long ways.
Write STUDENT on one and DRIVER on the other with a black Sharpie.
Slap those puppies on the back when gets his learners permit and you'll fell a whole bunch better when you have to take him on the road. I even made Clint Jr put them on after he got his Probationary license for the first 6 months. Yeah he rebelled and stuck them on upside down but he will tell you people stayed way back or went the long way around him.
Good Luck!
-PJ
Oh just wait... I realized the other day that my 2 year old grand daughter was headed out the door with my car keys saying "I start the truck for you".
That's when you need help coping.
I know the feeling. My son graduates from the Corpse ( :)) in two days.
I think being on the roads today is more dangerous. Tell her the turn signal is on cars for a reason. That causes most of the accidents out here in CA. I don’t know what the driving test is, I think you just have to find the ignition with the key.
All my prayers.
Driving with friends can be very dangerous. My three children were all good students and reliable drivers. But the only time one of them had an accident while I was in the car, my eldest pleaded to drive while I was taking her - and her friend - back to college. Fool that I was, I acceded, even tho it was snowing. I know, dumb!We passed some other cars that had gotten stuck, and my daughter locked eyes with her friend, losing situational awareness. By the time I focused her back on the road, she was in trouble - and I commanded an action that I knew would cause us to leave the road, because other options looked even worse. Plowed into the snow on the roadside, and hit a guardrail, $3K in damage to the car, but at least it ran - as long as I kept giving the radiator transfusions of water. Bought some antifreeze to put in it when I stopped the engine long enough for it to cool off.
When we crashed, my daughter started talking about “never driving again.” I immediately quashed that thought by telling her she would drive again that same day. Anything else would have just caused trouble.
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Our daughter knew everything under the hood and how to change a tire before she got behind the wheel. In Texas, parents can teach kids, as long as we use the Official TXDOT Drivers’ Handbook. She had driven the golf cart many times, and knew how to handle a vehicle.
The first time she got into my pickup, she floored it like the golf cart. Burned a bit of rubber, but she got the feel of a real vehicle. When I took her on her first driving lesson, she rolled through the first stop sign. I made her back up and come to a complete stop at the white line. She listened after that.
Hope you have better luck than we did. He went thru drivers Ed with flying colors. After 16 tickets and the third car he totaled we told him we weren’t buying him another one. That last one was a graduation gift. To be fair one of those wasn’t his fault. Took him a long time to figure out that a car was a tool and not a toy. He’s 26, works full time now, drives a BMW and lives in San Antonio.
Hope that cheered you up. ;o)
Oh wow... that is a milestone. I lucky that driver’s ed isn’t taught in “secondary schools” (high schools) in Quebec; not sure about Ontario.
I couldn’t wait to learn how to drive; when I was fifteen, my Dad took me out on empty parking lots.
I did ask my son when he was almost sixteen if he wanted to try driving around our circular parking lot (it’s in a rural area and there’s no one around). He showed little interest, which is fine by me. :)
Good luck to your son! Better yet, good luck to you. :)
They grow up quick!
I got so used to falling asleep on the couch waiting for them to come home by curfew on weekend nights that it took me a few years to break the habit and start sleeping in a bed again.