Today we continue our series on the 5 Parts of a Successful Lesson, and today’s part is Part 3: Practice, Practice, Practice…and then more Practice! Can you guess what you do in the 3rd part of your successful in-vehicle lesson? If you guessed practice the new technique you just introduced to your teen, you’re right! […]

We are on Part 3 of our series on the 5 Parts of a Successful Lesson, but we’re still discussing the second part of a successful lesson, and that is introducing the new learning. Last week, we talked about how you can introduce the new lesson by building on the previous lesson. Today’s tip on […]

There’s no doubt that your teen’s driver education is an extremely important matter. The #1 killer of teens in this country is motor vehicle crashes (in fact, it’s been this way for over 50 years), so it’s no surprise that parents like you take their teen’s driver education seriously, since it is a serious matter. […]

This week’s coaching tip is a simple one, yet it’s something that’s too often overlooked by parents (and instructors. Praise your student, parents! Learning to drive is a daunting and intimidating endeavor for most, if not all, new drivers. Never before have they had such an awesome responsibility as piloting a several-hundred pound object, and […]

Where should you target when you are parking – on a pull through or angle parking? The mistake that most folks make when they angle park or parking in a pull-through space is that they lower their eyes. In fact, you can see them leaning forward, trying to look over the hood of the car […]

Being anxious about driving or learning to drive is normal. Most new drivers feel uneasy when they start, struggle to process everything that’s happening in and outside of their vehicle, and then admit that they are surprised that it’s not as easy as they thought. That is partly because when they see others drive (like […]

Today’s tip was prompted by a written comment I received from Jocelyn, a parent, in Sugar Land, Texas. Go ahead and play the video to hear the whole comment. Essentially, she thanked my emphasis on the positive teaching techniques in Driver Ed in a Box® and how the discussions with her teen are creating a […]

As an experienced driver, chances are that by now you’ve overcome the “optical illusion” your brain creates for you when you get behind the wheel. But for a beginner, the Optical Illusion creates a very real hurdle. You overcome this problem with a combination of demonstration (as we describe in our first Parking Lot Video), […]

Beginning drivers get behind the wheel and as soon as they look up the road their brain goes into a “mini-shock” and says “Holy Cow! How am I going to get this great big car into that little bitty lane?” Okay, those may not be the exact words but that’s the type of translation that’s […]

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