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OP - If you and DH continue to give her road experience through the winter months and do not see a difference, then do not wait until summer, but line up a driving instructor in the spring.  I would also go a lot by the driving instructor's evaluation of her driving rather than your pressure to have a full-time driver by September.  If she is just not mentally there in full attention by that time, why would you risk her life and that of all of  your children?  Furthermore, besides learning to pay attention to the road and navigate it, it does not seem on an admittedly weak driver fair to anyone on the road to add siblings and how they are likely to be behaving.  And please God no one in the front passenger seat as that is the person most likely to get hurt in a crash.  I really, really think you and DH need to "back off" on any expectation of her driving by any end date.

If she does well with an instructor then there should be a period of time of her driving herself only, BUT with you or DH conveniently driving with her to observe if she has improved.  Then a reexamination of when she can take siblings.  Don't be foolish with this important life skill.  If you have managed to get all your kids to school as of now, you two adults can continue to do so and not put this added dimension to distracted driving on your oldest child's plate.  And what about how she really would or would not be on a cell phone or have the radio or whatever going.  Driving is not something that you place a deadline on anyone to learn as somebody else could be impacted by your impractical decision.  [/quote]

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