Teaching your teen to drive is a job to take seriously. Driving is a skill they will use for the next 70 years, and there are never any do-overs in a car. “Turn here” is not an instruction any more than “you drive to the mall” is a driving lesson. Here are 5 more common mistakes parent-coaches make:
The 1st year of driving a car is the most dangerous. Many teens crash. Therefore learning how to drive a car needs to include safety at a crash site.
Part of learning how to drive a car is learning safety at the gas pump. At most gas stations you pump your own gas so you need to learn how to do it safely.
Knowing how to drive a car in winter is an essential skill when turning and stopping. Take your foot off the brake before a curve to safely make the turn.
Learning how to drive a car requires extra caution when passing. Your ability to judge clearance to pass safely improves with your experience in driving a car.
When driving a car you may get pulled over by police. Hopefully not when you are learning how to drive a car. Follow the rules in your learn to drive checklist.
Knowing how to back up is necessary when you learn how to drive a car. Make this a part of your Learn to Drive checklist. Here are some tips for Backing Up.
Learning how to drive a car requires learning perpendicular parking. Add it to your learn to drive checklist. With experience driving a car it will get easy.
Learning how to drive a car means knowing pedestrian safety. Take care driving a car through school & construction zones. Learn to drive properly at crosswalks.
Learning how to drive a car includes driving a car on rural roads where farm tractors travel. The video is for tractor drivers as they learn to drive a tractor.
You may not want your teen to learn to drive until they’re 25! But f you delay teaching how to drive a car you’ll lose most of your impact as coach and monitor.
When teens learn to drive some think it’s cool not wearing seatbelts. But 1 in 10 teens who learn to drive this year will have a potentially fatal crash.
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