Preparing For Teens Driving

I was listening to a parenting seminar the other night and she gave this great tip that I’ve already started to use.

She called it preparing your teens for driving. I call it “prepaving” – setting up the expectations for your teen so that when it comes time to drive, the rule(s) you are creating are unquestionable.

This speaker stated that she began teaching her children a specific rule about driving at the tender age of 10 or 11 yrs. As she drove the kids around town, when she’d see children playing or drive by a school yard with children she’d say out loud “Oh, there’s children around. I need to slow down because you never know when one might run into the street.”

Thus in the 5-6 years before driving, her children heard “hundreds” of times that if there are kids around, you need to slow down.

I love the idea of prepaving the way for the rules of driving. I’ll be thinking of other areas I can prepave for my children to be responsible adults.

Do you do something like this? Do you have any ideas of where else we can prepave rules for our kids?