When you’re deciding what you’re going to be teaching your teen in the vehicle on any given day of in-vehicle practice, it’s a good idea to try and limit the scope of the lesson. Driving collision-free takes a huge range of skills and habits to be successful at it, but there’s just no way even a tenth of those skills and habits can be compressed into a single lesson.
Keep the lesson focused on three or four particular skills and/or procedures. Building the habits of collision-free driving is like building a pyramid. You build it one block at a time, one level at a time. Just like a pyramid, building the base is going to take the longest, but it’s going to get easier as you go.
Watch this video to see Patrick Barrett, the Driver Education Guru, explain more about how and why we sometimes keep the scope of the lessons narrow in driver education.