This coaching tip is all about alleviating your fears, your doubts that maybe you’re not cut out to teach your teen to drive. It’s so important that your teen learn to drive safely, that perhaps you feel like it’s something that should just be left to a professional. Well, I could see how you might think that, but you’re wrong.
The fact is that what a student driver needs the most when learning how to drive safely is time, practice, and repetition, and these are things that you aren’t likely to get from a public or private driving school. A professional driving instructor simply cannot afford to give your teen all the supervised practice and instruction she’s going to need to build safe driving skills into safe driving habits. The amount of time that most driving schools allot for in-vehicle instruction is really only enough to introduce skills and areas of driving.
The fact is, even if you send your teen to a driving school, with the amount of time and supervised practice that’s needed to build safe driving skills into habits, you’re the primary instructor anyway!
Watch this video to see Patrick Barrett, the Driver Education Guru, explain more about why you, the parent, are more than qualified to teach your teen to drive.