{"id":6601,"date":"2011-08-01T13:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2011-08-01T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T13:36:38","slug":"wise-words-about-driving-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6601","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words About Driving Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article from The News of Portsmouth is interesting [dead link removed]. The author is a reporter for the publication.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"HomerThe article is titled “There are some things your parents can’t teach you”, and is the author’s personal opinion regarding driving lessons – first with her dad, and then with a driving instructor.<\/p>\n

I recently posted an article about private practice<\/a>, and gave some examples of the kinds of things that can happen to make it… well, not very useful<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’ve also got a shed load of stories about the family arguments caused when a parent or partner tries to teach a learner.<\/p>\n

One current pupil goes out with his dad. After his first time out, I asked him if they’d ended up arguing – he couldn’t wait to unburden himself over how his dad shouted at him, always found fault, told him to do things differently to the way I’d taught him, tried to teach him a “better” way of parallel parking (but couldn’t explain how he – with 30 years experience – judged positions and when to steer, and so created massive confusion), and so on.<\/p>\n

A while back, I’d arranged for a pupil’s husband to sit in the back on a lesson so he could see what to look for. At the end of the lesson, I wagged my finger theatrically\u00a0and said:<\/p>\n

Now promise me that you WON’T fall out over this!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My pupil replied:<\/p>\n

You’re too late! We already have!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They were apparently not on proper speaking terms that day because of a lesson he’d taken her on the night before (and with hindsight, it explained the look on her face if he said anything during that lesson).<\/p>\n

And another current pupil is often in a bad mood because he’s had an argument with his mum after she’s pointed something out while they’re driving to or from school that day.<\/p>\n

I could give loads more examples, but the point is that as well as private practice sometimes being of poor quality due to the supervising driver not being necessarily a good driver or a good teacher, there are also the underlying “issues” that frequently exist within families which can prevent even good <\/em>supervision being received well (i.e. there is no “detachment”)<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to this article. The authour comments that although lessons are expensive they should still be a legal requirement becuase parents don’t have the training or detachment<\/em> (see my comment above) <\/em>necessary to do the job. She says that yelling at your kids on the street\u00a0is one thing, but yelling at them when they are in control of the 2-litre family car is something else.<\/p>\n

She mentions that things can go wrong – and cites the example of the mother accidentally killed by her daughter<\/a> in a car park in an accident, but says others are lucky to get away with bumps or scrapes.<\/p>\n

She concludes by saying that she believes there should be a retest every 5 years, more than 3 points for speeding, and lifetime bans for drink driving.<\/p>\n

I agree fully with her comments, and the reference to the tragic accident involving that mother and daughter is very pertinent indeed.<\/p>\n

Mind you, a serial commenter called Ripcords Ghost doesn’t. He or she thinks that the article is an “advertorial” and the reference to the mother who was killed is “very distasteful”.<\/p>\n

Ripcords Ghost should get a life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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