
Originally Posted by
Arky-X
Oh how my kids loved those driving lessons at Dad's School of Aggressive Driving.
We would go to the empty parking lots and I quickly learned they had no feel behind the wheel. I grew up riding 3-wheelers and mowing grass on riding lawn mowers at 10 years old so I had the vehicle control down by the time it was time to drive.
I would set up empty bottles (trash people left behind) and make them drive towards it but they could not hit the brakes until I told them to. I would wait until the last second and yell STOP!!!!
They would run over it the first few times until they got a feel for the pedal.
Then we would do the same thing except I would yell RIGHT or LEFT and they had to swerve around it.
Again, they hit it the first few times but soon got a feel for the response of the wheel.
When we finally hit the road I made them go through a routine of repeating what was in front of them, behind (rear-view), left mirror, right mirror.
They hated that....... 1 car in front and 2 more in front of them.....all clear behind me.......still 3 in front .....clear to the left........clear to the right.....repeat.
When they got used to that I would say, "Left" and they had to tell me car or clear.......they had to know.....not check their mirror and then tell me. It was all about them knowing what was around them at ALL times. If you have to swerve or make a move, you better know.
It was fun and they liked the empty parking lot lessons. We smashed plenty of empty water bottles and beer cans.