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We made it back home!!! Daughter driving!!!

Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,073 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
I have been letting my daughter drive a little around our neighborhood...just a bit when the roads are not busy. I think I will have a heart attack when we start going to town. You just don't want to be in that car....me yelling....SLOW DOWN!!! SLOW DOWN!!!! Quit looking at the radio! and her yelling back at me. Its just horrible. There's no easy way to do this...is there. She started by driving here around our land, but my car was being treated like a 4-wheeler...giant clods of mud all over it, but she insists she was NOT driving crazy back there....right.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    A parent should not teach child to drive:[:0]

    A husband should not teach wife to drive:[:0]
  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    no one should teach a woman to drive...lets them have the freedom to leave the yard...then they get into trouble
    By the way...isn't your daughter a bit young to be driving?
  • kristovkristov Member Posts: 6,633
    edited November -1
    Teaching daughters to drive can take a few years off your life. My wife is a university professor so she felt she did more than enough teaching during her work day to exempt herself from driving instruction. Daughter #1, who is currently an engieering student at Stanford, took to driving right away once we went through the fundamentals of motor vehicle operation in a very matter of fact way. Daughter #2 was an different story and she seemed to have her own ideas about the rules of the road, very few of which were in agreement with the CA Motor Vehicle Code. I worry a lot more about my youngest daughter making her 8 minute drive between home and her high school than I do about my oldest girl making the 8 hour drive down from Stanford during vacations and long weekends.
  • Bill CostikBill Costik Member Posts: 1,845 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought your daughter was 14? Is'nt that kind of young to be letting her drive on the road? Does she even have a permit at that age?
  • Ox190Ox190 Member Posts: 2,782 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would be careful with that. I can't remember where it happened but it was on the news. A father was teaching his daughter to drive in a parking lot when she hit the gas and never hit the brake and killed someone.
  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You might look in the phone book for driving schools, thats what they are there for :)
  • SGSG Member Posts: 7,548
    edited November -1
    In the state of Ms. you can legally get your dl at 14 only if you dont have a legal guardian that is capabale of driving.quote:Originally posted by Bill Costik
    I thought your daughter was 14? Is'nt that kind of young to be letting her drive on the road? Does she even have a permit at that age?
  • calamitywoodcalamitywood Member Posts: 939 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    dad taught me to drive when i was 10 years old. I drove from Norris City, Il. to Herrin, Il. when I was 13. (Dad needed to deliver a car he had worked on and i was the only one available. He followed me in another car.) Something like a thiry mile trip. Grew up on a farm and drove to the feed store by myself all the time. Got my license when I was sixteen (it was printed on paper and didn't even have my photo on it)taught all my kids to drive by the time they were 13; all great drivers.
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,073 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Out here in the "country" all of the younger people are driving every kind of contraption by the time they can reach the peddals. My daughter has driven everything from 4-wheelers, lawn mowers, tractors, golf carts, go-carts, and yes...cars. When she is let out on her own I want her to have ALL the experience she can have before that day comes. So, for now, I will let her drive me around these country roads all I can stand....and when she is 15 and is ready....we are going out where more people and traffic are. To stick a young person behind the wheel is scary enough with the little amount of time we give them to practice. I may be as frustrated as can be, but when the time comes I will know I have gotten her as ready as I can for this.

    The whole reason I am starting her like I am...is because she is my "most frustrating" child. The other two came along and that is when I realized JUST how hard she is sometimes. She is good...just a little too "smart" for her own good.
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  • IAMACLONE_2IAMACLONE_2 Member Posts: 4,725
    edited November -1
    Taught both daughters on brother in laws frac roll off / winch truck.
    A 1959 Diamond Rio 13speed, 4 speed transfer box and 2 speed rear axle.
    Put it in low,low,low top speed 2-3mph, but able to knock down large buildings.
    And of course the front end of the tractor is a steel diamond plate.
    [:D][:D][:D]
    Did kill / mow down a few small trees, that were to slow to get out of the girls way.
  • sig232sig232 Member Posts: 8,018
    edited November -1
    A friend of mine told me that boys will trash the first two cars that they have. I thought that was quite funny, laughed my butt off!

    But guess what, my son totalled the first car we bought for him. Then gave him my older Jeep Grand Cherokee and he brought it home with a big dent in the side and would not admit to being responsible. Then took it four wheeling and trashed it mechanically.

    So now he is on his own at 19 and he pays his own way, at my insistance!
  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,474 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Going through the same thing myself. My youngest just got his permit and in Illinois, he has to have 50 hours of driving with a parent before he can get his licence.
  • fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    The best way to make a responsible driver is to have them buy their own car.

    Ben
  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree with Ben... I didn't start driving more carfully until I bought my Escort. Now that my Escort is gone (I still miss it) and I have my Ranger, I only drive semi-crazy when I'm late...and that's rare, if ever.
  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    However, since I started driving HMMWVs, I've been getting out all of my driving frustrations and fantacies. Those things are freekin' TOUGH... Probily the only good thing that came off a GM assebly line.
  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    I saw on the news they have a program for monitoring your kids driving. it involves a hows my driving bumpersticker with an 800 number like you see on delivery trucks. it cost 4.95 a month for call monotoring
  • sig232sig232 Member Posts: 8,018
    edited November -1
    Kids are very resourcfull, they would simply cover the bumper sticker with duct tape.
  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Since when do females need to know how to drive. Most don't and can walk to the kitchen or bedroom.
  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishermanben
    The best way to make a responsible driver is to have them buy their own car.

    Ben


    True enough Ben.
    My daughter got her drivers license at 14 and bought her own car the same week. She needed a car to get to work. She started with a beater Mercury Comet. Every year she has traded up and is on her third car at age 17, it will be paid for in a couple months. She makes all her own car payments and pays for her own insurance.

    She says she is the only one in her class who has had to buy her own car and pay her own insurance. I am so proud of her and relieved she has the financial skills and responsibility to take with her when she is on her own next year.

    I have a 13 year old son who is learning how to drive now, he is already making plans for a job and car.
  • COLTCOLT Member Posts: 12,637 ******
    edited November -1
    ..."boys" total their first two cars?
    ...I have only totaled two cars and one truck, oh, that's three...[:0]








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  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not to hijack this thread but, Why couldn't Helen Keller drive a car?





    Because she was a woman!!!!!!!!!!!
  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gearheaddad
    Not to hijack this thread but, Why couldn't Helen Keller drive a car?





    Because she was a woman!!!!!!!!!!!

    I like that one [:D][:D]
    if you can't drive and you can't park would that be irony?
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    Funny how men always say women cant drive, when in fact the insurance agencies and stats prove its the males who cant drive...
  • fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
    Funny how men always say women cant drive, when in fact the insurance agencies and stats prove its the males who cant drive...


    slow and indecisive is a good way to avoid accidents--no arguments there; however, I don't have the knockers to keep the road raging truckers from waxing my *.

    Ben
  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
    Funny how men always say women cant drive, when in fact the insurance agencies and stats prove its the males who cant drive...

    I think thats because men includes boys...who we all know take risks while driving
    Also. men drive 6 times as much as women on average
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    quote: think thats because men includes boys...who we all know take risks while driving
    Also. men drive 6 times as much as women on average

    You forgot one thing,....they come up with the dumbest excuses to try and prove someone wrong or prove stats wrong...
  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    Hey I agree with you, believe your statistical finding....I just think the full dimension of your observation should be without reservation
  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    AND, women driving jokes are always funny!!!!!
  • fugawefugawe Member Posts: 1,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Put your seat belt on, I want to try something. I saw it in a cartoon but I think I can make it work....."
  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
    Funny how men always say women cant drive, when in fact the insurance agencies and stats prove its the males who cant drive...


    That is the biggest load of bull yet. Statistics are yet another form of lies when used subjectively.
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    Stats can be skewed yes, but not insurance agencies ....


    quote:Are Men Better Drivers than Women?
    Email Article More Auto Insurance Articles

    Argue all you want; however you'd be hard-pressed to find documented proof that men are superior to women as drivers. But make no mistake - gender certainly does impact driving habits and insurance industry observers believe that issue manifests in other ways, too. That's a point driven home by insurance executives such as David Snyder, who acknowledges that most car insurance companies take into account a driver's gender in determining policy pricing.




    So. let's see what the statistics have to say about drivers, in terms of males vs. females. Figures compiled by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) show that more men than women die each year in motor vehicle crashes, figures that drew explanatory comments from various insurance industry observers such as Russ Rader of IIHS, in Arlington, Va., and Tully Lehman, of the Insurance Information Network of California (IINC).

    "Men typically engage more often in risky driving practices including not using a safety belt. driving while intoxicated, and speeding," according to Rader, spokesman for IIHS, in Arlington, Va.





    and another one...
    Women have proven it. Where there's a wheel, there's a way.

    Latest statistics show that the old notion of men being better drivers than women has skidded into oblivion.

    In fact, in a U.S. poll, more women than men bragged about being better behind the wheel, and one out of three men agreed that their skills had been overtaken.


    Are women better drivers?

    By STEVE PAYNE - Sun Media






    Women have proven it. Where there's a wheel, there's a way.

    Latest statistics show that the old notion of men being better drivers than women has skidded into oblivion.

    In fact, in a U.S. poll, more women than men bragged about being better behind the wheel, and one out of three men agreed that their skills had been overtaken.

    "It's a myth that men are better drivers than women," agrees Supt. Gary Grant, Toronto's top traffic cop. "There is no difference at all in the driving skill levels. I have no trouble at all getting into a car driven by a woman."

    The U.S. survey was by Bridgestone/ Firestone Inc.


    In it, 76% of women claimed to be safer drivers than men, while 69% of men claimed the throne. The other 31% of males acknowledged that women were safer driving bets.
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,073 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Really, I would love to take scott for a drive....really.
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Locust Fork
    Really, I would love to take scott for a drive....really.

    you love me...really love...me
  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by scottm21166
    quote:Originally posted by Locust Fork
    Really, I would love to take scott for a drive....really.

    you love me...really love...me



    I was thinking it was a perfect match, but do you smoke afterwords? Don
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