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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the criticism with this generation's disinterest in driving is justified, but if OP's kid is too busy, that's a different thing.

My kid is not old enough, but almost there, and she's really, absurdly busy. I can imagine her being even busier next year and saying, yeah we gotta put this off, there's no way I can pull focus from other things rn.

I agree it's an important life skill and it should be taught sooner than later, but waiting a few months (summer?) to me is no big deal and even appropriate.[/quote]

But OPs kid already did drivers training.  So how is she now “too busy” to actually practice driving? I’m assuming parents are driving her everywhere to all the things that make her so busy.[/quote]

PP you quoted. You raise an excellent point. I don't know if what is keeping her DD busy requires driving (it may not) but yes, she should drive when you are taking her to activities.[/quote]

Getting our kid to the point where they could drive our normal routes at normal times of day (often rush hour) took a while and concerted effort. That is the part that is hard to fit into a busy schedule. And for even moderately anxious kids it takes a while and quite a bit of parking lot/non-rush hour driving time to get there.  The required hours (60!!!) went much quicker once kid was a basically competent driver who could drive to the places they needed to go anyway. [/quote]

Excuses.  Tell them they need to drive.  They can manage in rush hour with you in the car. If they’ve don’t a driving training program, they’ve likely already had to do this. [/quote]

In MD the required drivers ed class is just the book learning plus 6 hours of driving. They recommend you do the parking lot portion yourself so that the kid can actually drive with the teacher. So no, our kid had not already driven on roads and we actually take the responsibility to make sure our student driver isn’t a huge danger to others seriously. And we are actually doing all of the 60 hours which apparently no one does. [/quote]

What are you talking about? Drivers training TEACHES them to drive.  You don’t have to do any (and shouldn’t, since you can’t legally) driving on the road prior.  You don’t even have to do parking lot driving.  The first of the 6 hrs of “driving” is spent with them in the parking lot learning how the car works.  By the 6th hr driving, you will have been all over town, on the highway, etc. They will be ready to drive anywhere with you at that point.  No excuses about rush hour.  [/quote]

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