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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I already point our driving tips, traffic sign meanings, rules of the road, etc., while driving with my 11 yo. I've started asking her to help me navigate. My mom did the same with me. It will be her choice when you wants to get her license, but I think it's important for her to know how to drive as a teenager, including learning how to drive a manual car. It's a life skill, and even if she lives in a city with public transportation for the rest of her life, I want her to be capable. I don't want her to ever feel entirely reliant on Lyft/Uber, peer drivers, or other parents. [/quote]

Lol this sounds like it was written in 1993. Nobody "navigates anymore" - everyone under 50 uses Waze. Manual transmission already does not exist on almost any good performance cars anymore (where manual is most likely to be an option) and major brands have already stated their intention to drop manual transmissions from most cars (even in Europe!). Only 2% of cars have manual transmission and even that is shrinking. 5 years from now it will all be self-driving electric cars. I agree, knowing how to drive a car is a good skill to have, but "navigating" and "stick shift" have already not been things for a decade[/quote]

I am not the poster with the 11 year old but I started having my kids sit up front at 11 and I understood what she meant by navigate. Even with WAZE it is helpful to have a person in the passenger seat look around for you. So if WAZE or another navigation system says move to the right on a highway and exit, I have look to my right to verify it is clear but also have my kids do it. When the navigation system says turn right at a certain block I make my kids look for the street signs, etc. They also can visually look at a map to figure out where to go. Or if I am dropping them off at a friend's house I tell my kids to figure out how to get there and give me directions. And if you have ever been to Europe and rented a car it is really helpful to drive a manual. We did in Greece three years ago because it was the only option to drive a stick shift from the rental place we used.

My 13 year old son has a friend from the midwest who moved here. He was telling us his neighbors complained to his parents because the 13 year old was used to backing up the car in the driveway or they let him pull up into the driveway in the midwest starting at age 12 when he reached 5'4" but his neighbors here complained and now he is over 5'7". [/quote]

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