Anonymous
05/21/2025 10:48
Subject: What are your rules for your teen driving with other kids?
Anonymous wrote:Don’t. Insurance doesn’t allow it. The only teen passenger is limited to one, any additional teens that can be in the car must be a sibling.
Call your insurance agent to explain insurance to you.
Anonymous
05/21/2025 10:46
Subject: What are your rules for your teen driving with other kids?
I’m fine with it with my daughter, not my son. Know your kid and like PP said, the law in your state.
Anonymous
05/21/2025 10:43
Subject: What are your rules for your teen driving with other kids?
Anonymous wrote:DD (10th grade) is one of the youngest in her grade. It means that most everyone she knows is getting or has gotten their license before she will. We are getting lots of requests to get rides with friends. So far, our rule has been that she cannot ride with any friends (all of these kids have had a license for a few months, if that!). We will drive her where she wants to go. She’s embarrassed now and throwing a fit that we aren’t letting her drive with friends. We do plan to loosen up once these kids have been driving a year, and in that case, DD can drive herself places.
Are we being unreasonable? I would love to hear how others handle this. The news stories just really scare me. I won’t give in because she’s upset about it, but I would like to understand if people think we are too strict about this.
If she is throwing a fit about this - no. When she is ready to have a conversation about guidelines - yes.
Have your daughter propose the rules and discuss. Think about why you are saying yes or no.
Have a commitment to revisit the rules in 2 months and put that on the calendar.