Is there anything more terrifying than the idea of your kid piloting a few thousand pounds of steel? If you’re a teen who’s about to start driving, can you think of anything more fun than getting behind the wheel for the first time? The fact is, launching a new driver out onto the highways and byw…

My Father teaching me to drive was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. It really put a different perspective on his influence in my life. It was presented with “watch and listen,soon you will be alone and I won’t be there to back you up,you need to act responsibility”. My input is tha…

Every learner should need to sit throught the presentation that I and a class did once in 1971 back in Wooster Ohio. When the seminar was over and we went to our cars, we were damn near scared to even put the thing in drive at all. ( we had already begun the standard driving class in school and our …

Well, I’m glad I don’t have any kids. I’ve got enough gray/white hair as it is, thank you. On one hand, 16 year olds shouldn’t be let anywhere near a car. Mentally, they are still small children and are incapable of rational decision making. The human brain doesn’t finish assembling itself until ab…

As has been posted here before, knowing the rules of the road is huge. Following distances, right-of-way, merging, basic green,blue,brown signage, etc etc. Also instilling that driving the vehicle is the first priority. Not the phone, friends, radio, eating or anything else. Their lives are on t…

The best car for a new teen driver is one they buy with money they earned themselves…Four cylinder stick shift pick-ups are a good choice for a first vehicle. No pretense of “coolness” or “performance”. Easy to repair, cheap to insure, relatively safe to drive. Since insurance will be a major expens…

Alot of great stuff in there, I love your show and appreciate the info, down side I have a teen in drivers ed, cripes it is hard enough getting her to listen to your show, and an improvement I might suggest is bigger bolder type and consice points. As I advise my secretaries take out every other w…

If I had one catch phrase to tell a young driver, it would have to be something like “wisdom only works if you choose to use it”. My worst driving happens when I deliberately choose against wisdom and for emotion.

I taught my two daughters to drive, along with driver’s ed. The things I emphasized after the basic car control were: Parking lots are dangerous! Seriously, people and cars are moving in all sorts of directions and you need to be watching for them everywhere. The speeds are low, so the consequ…

I was very fortunate when my son was a teenage driver. He attended a military school for high school and took a driver training course while enrolled there. In the summer he lived with a relative and worked for the academy so I furnished a car. The military school experience helped him develop a s…

Teen Drivers

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dagosa March 23, 2009, 9:29pm 10

Teaching your kids to drive can be a great bonding experience if handled correctly. One of the best places I found to teach a teenager how to handle a car safely, is in a cemetery. Close quarters, constant attention required, a constant reminder of their mortality and no one gets upset when you scream.

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