Morning CoSo π A grey start to the day here. I hope you are all well.
@th3heal3r Morning π
@Mandypar
Good Morning Mandy, hope you have a good Sunday.
@Esther Morning π You too - I hope today is peaceful for you.
@Mandypar
Good morning Mandy! We had a successful trip to the DMV yesterday, so now I get to start teaching Minimac #2 how to drive. That's a nerve-wracking process. We'll start with a big empty parking lot somewhere...
@janallmac Morning π Good luck with that. I paid for lessons out of my part-time job which was much better for family relations - the one time I drove my mother in a car when I was learning she was so panicked (for no reason) that I stopped the car, got out and walked home. The next time I drove her I had passed several years and had to use her car to drive her somewhere as she had a broken collar bone. π
@Mandypar
Yup. Relatable! My oldest is still mad at me for "screaming" when I was teaching him to drive.
He did things like looking straight at me while driving forward. π±
Thankfully, he's a good driver now and never got to the point he actually left the car, but I'm certain he'd agree with your actions and tell you all about how much I would scream and Mom-arm him.
I try to restrain myself. I do.
@Mandypar We're also going to be doing formal Driver's Ed with a real driver this summer, hopefully.
Driver's Ed teachers have got to be some of the most calm humans in the world, though. Either that or highly medicated! Holy moly. They have 2-3 new drivers at a time.
@janallmac lol π π€£ β solidarity for children whose parents didn't cope well when we were learning to drive! (Mum drove me to the MS Therapy Centre here once as my husband couldn't take me - I asked the staff for alcohol or drugs to help me cope with the journey home (they had neither) π )
@janallmac @Mandypar
Step 1. Ignore your passenger, especially if they are a teenage boy
Step 2. Ignore your mobile distraction unit
βAmong the teens who said they were distracted by something inside the vehicle before they crashed, 71 percent of males and 47 percent of females said they were distracted directly by the actions of their passengers,β says Dr. Allison E. Curry, lead author of the CHOP study."
https://www.carinsurance.com/Articles/teen-passenger-distraction.aspx
@b4cks4w
I don't doubt it for a second. π―
Right now, he is not allowed, by us, to have other passengers.
I or my husband have to be there in the shotgun seat. It's actually a state law that a licensed driver over 21 has to be there, and in our family, it means one of the parents. (i.e. not a friend) and no other passengers currently.
Deeeeeeeeppp breaths.
@Mandypar Morning Mandy π Not looking that great here either β