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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I asked a similar question here last year. Yes, most people say “just practice”. In Virginia, we did, and saw many others, practicing at Wolf Trap (a couple big parking lots, some connecting roads). Then went out to Big suburban mall and drove around the big outside ring road (Dulles then center is perfect for this). Over and over. And continued to see if kid was willing to try one additional thing - a longer distance, a small detour, changing lanes, etc. For us, it was very slow going, I stayed very patient and eventually DD was ok enough to start the IDS sessions. We thought about professional lessons too, but I thought kid would be more anxious. [/quote]

Yeah, my recommendation is get out to more exurban areas--this is not an easy area to learn to drive in.

If you go on weekends, there are a bunch of huge park and ride parking lots for the commuter buses near Dulles and in Loudoun. These are ideal because they are big, nobody uses them during the weekend and they have very clearly marked parking spots, etc. In fact, they are where they used to (not anymore) take people for the motorcycle licensing classes.[/quote]

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