It is part of the grand initiation into the adult world: passing the driver's test and becoming a genuine card-carrying member of the licensed auto operating world. For parents, the juncture comes with a good mix of pride and anxiousness.
"My child is actually growing up," you think to yourself. "But," you sagely add, "he or she is still a child to some extent."
Easing a child into adulthood is no small matter - especially when the risks of general liability and losses and damages associated with an accident are so blatantly incongruous to the rest of society that they actually rock the car insurance industry and threaten policy holders with increased rates that are way above the average insurance quote.
So how do you deal with this extremely precarious stage of life and driving? You lecture, teach, instruct and repeat the very necessary rules of safe driving.
What to tell Your New Teen Driver
The manner in which you deliver your pitch for good driving practices, of course, is as essential to the process as any so make sure to do so in a relaxed atmosphere at home or any other comfortable premises. Show your teen your care and concern by underscoring your love for him and her. Tell about the need to be responsible when it comes to something as important as driving. Stress that careless driving is the cause of damages, injury and even tragic loss of life. Then go on to enumerate the basics of safe driving rules while emphasizing that common sense goes a long way as well.
Dear son and daughter - (here we go) -
• Evaluate your individual capability of driving each time you get behind the wheel. Are you excessively tired? Did you drink at that party? Be honest enough to tell yourself you may not be at the right state of mind to drive (and don't drive)if you question your capability at the moment.
• Always buckle up your seat belt prior to driving, instruct any passengers to do the same.
• Adjust your headrest to a tailored fit of your head before driving.
• Never drive without a clean windshield. This will allow for optimum driving visibility at all times, particularly in the low-visibility times, at sun rise and at sun set.
• Maintain safe hand-on-wheel positions - 4 o'clock and 8 o'clock or 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock - the points that have been documented to protect a driver's face from the brunt of a vehicle's airbag when set off by the force of a collision.
• Heed all speed limits. Besides a mandate of the law, doing so gives you sufficient time to stop and avoid an accident.
• Respect other drivers. Turn on blinkers for a turn and yield to others, while be on the look-out for any motorcycle, bicycle and pedestrian.
• Watch out and keep a distance from others that drive aggressively.
• Never talk on your cell phone or handle any device while driving.
• Do not distract yourself with anything that will keep your mind on your number one priority: the road, and safety.
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