Learning To Drive: How You Can Help Your Teenage Child With This
Do you still remember the angst you went through when your father allowed you to get behind the steering wheel of his car for the first time? How your hands trembled when you fastened the safety belt? How you pressed the wrong button to adjust the rear-view mirror? When you turned the key for the first time, and you heard the sound of the engine coming alive, you wanted to jump out and run, but a strange excitement kept you glued to the seat.
The information below is so you can help your teenage son or daughter to go through a little less stress when he/she is learning to drive. Of course it's also useful to protect you from serious bodily harm during the whole process...
A crucial tip is not to try and do everything at once. If you take it one skill at a time, it will take a lot of the tension out of the process for him. It's very important that you should not allow the student to drive the car under any circumstances before he is fully trained in the position and function of all the major controls of the car. It can cause his death if he should one day end up in a crisis, and can't remember how to switch on the lights, or where to switch on the windscreen wipers. Also make sure he knows the rules of road by heart before switching on the car for the first time.
Secondly, remember that practice makes perfect. Even if your student can't wait to get going, let him practice all the basic skills over and over. Once again, in an emergency situation they have to react instinctively. There is no time to think what your next step should be. Let them practice in an empty parking lot after hours.
Starting off with parking skills is not a bad idea. This will give the student a feeling for how the car reacts to turning the wheel, braking etc. Reverse parking is never easy for a learner driver, so let him practice this many times over, even if he gets bored.
For an experienced drive it comes naturally to slow down when approaching a curve in the road. This is not so for a new driver. He first has to develop a feeling for how the car reacts when applying the brakes at different speeds, and might go into his first curve way to fast. Another thing that does not come naturally is to slow down some distance from a stop sign and gently apply the brakes. And pulling away from a stop street while there is oncoming traffic in the distance is terrifying to many new drivers. So discuss this with him before you venture into traffic, preparing him mentally for what is to come.
Another thing that is very scary is knowing how to deal with people walking across the road, bicycles moving right in front of you, and other cars changing lanes without warning. This can be life threatening if your child should panic and do something stupid, so discuss this with him before actually venturing into the traffic, and start off where you will encounter this, but not on a bewildering scale.
Finally, while learning to drive the student also has to be prepared for driving in adverse conditions, like rain, bad light, snowstorms etc. A training video could be very helpful in this regard - you can watch it together and discuss the appropriate reaction to the different situations. - 21393
The information below is so you can help your teenage son or daughter to go through a little less stress when he/she is learning to drive. Of course it's also useful to protect you from serious bodily harm during the whole process...
A crucial tip is not to try and do everything at once. If you take it one skill at a time, it will take a lot of the tension out of the process for him. It's very important that you should not allow the student to drive the car under any circumstances before he is fully trained in the position and function of all the major controls of the car. It can cause his death if he should one day end up in a crisis, and can't remember how to switch on the lights, or where to switch on the windscreen wipers. Also make sure he knows the rules of road by heart before switching on the car for the first time.
Secondly, remember that practice makes perfect. Even if your student can't wait to get going, let him practice all the basic skills over and over. Once again, in an emergency situation they have to react instinctively. There is no time to think what your next step should be. Let them practice in an empty parking lot after hours.
Starting off with parking skills is not a bad idea. This will give the student a feeling for how the car reacts to turning the wheel, braking etc. Reverse parking is never easy for a learner driver, so let him practice this many times over, even if he gets bored.
For an experienced drive it comes naturally to slow down when approaching a curve in the road. This is not so for a new driver. He first has to develop a feeling for how the car reacts when applying the brakes at different speeds, and might go into his first curve way to fast. Another thing that does not come naturally is to slow down some distance from a stop sign and gently apply the brakes. And pulling away from a stop street while there is oncoming traffic in the distance is terrifying to many new drivers. So discuss this with him before you venture into traffic, preparing him mentally for what is to come.
Another thing that is very scary is knowing how to deal with people walking across the road, bicycles moving right in front of you, and other cars changing lanes without warning. This can be life threatening if your child should panic and do something stupid, so discuss this with him before actually venturing into the traffic, and start off where you will encounter this, but not on a bewildering scale.
Finally, while learning to drive the student also has to be prepared for driving in adverse conditions, like rain, bad light, snowstorms etc. A training video could be very helpful in this regard - you can watch it together and discuss the appropriate reaction to the different situations. - 21393
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