Damage to the car, someone else’s car or, heaven forbid, herself. There are a million mistakes she can make that can cause damage. Now, she is 16, and I need to teach her enough to try and keep her alive. When she was two years old, this never occurred to me. I barely lived through learning to drive myself, but I knew I was going to need to be at least partly responsible for teaching Caroline to drive. I teach children to read, write, analyze, understand, problem-solve and appreciate, but I have never taught anyone to drive. Accelerate now.” What I was really thinking was I was never getting in the car again with her … but of course that wasn’t the answer. I had to stop myself from saying, “What are you thinking? GO!” Instead, I said, calmly, “You don’t stop in the middle of a busy street, dear. In those ten seconds, I thought about the imaginary car that was sure to barrel into us at any moment, the colorful language my father used when he was teaching me to drive, and how important it was that I not show fear. She made a right-hand turn out of our neighborhood and stopped, dead in the street.
The seriousness surrounding this teaching task became all too real when my daughter, Caroline, was finally behind the wheel. So I smiled and agreed to teach my daughter to drive.
#DRIVING LESSON PLANNER LICENSE#
Wasn’t she just learning to walk the other day? How can it possibly be time to drive? Is she really ready for this, despite what the age requirement for a license says? It’s been so long since I learned to drive myself, do I really remember all the “technical” rules? What is highway hypnosis again?īut, as much as we want to hold on and keep them small, they do grow up and you have to accept new milestones. However, as a parent, the feeling is a little different. Plenty of teenagers … and adults … don’t have driver’s licenses and get around just fine, right?īut teenagers look forward to driving like a child waiting to open presents on Christmas morning. It’s scary (to say the least), and I wanted to take the keys back from her as quickly as I handed them over.
I don’t know that anything quite prepares you for the moment when your child first takes a seat behind the wheel. Teaching my daughter to drive, however, has brought me as pretty close to this level. No one will ever call me OCD and I am okay with that.
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