Parents with Teens Learning How to Drive a Car
"More Teens Die in Car Crashes Than From Anything Else...Including Drugs, Violence & Illness - Combined!
99% of Those Crashes Are Completely Avoidable! Driver error is a factor in almost all crashes. Teen drivers are the most at risk because they have the least experience in driving a car.
Most Driver's Ed courses provide only 8 hours (or less) of actual driving practice and that's not nearly enough for a teen to learn how to drive a car safely! Driver's Ed (or a good professional driving course) is the best start you can give your teen when they learn to drive. But experts agree teens need at least 100 hours of actual driving practice to build their safe driving skills and learn the more advanced ones of driving a car safely.
To help your teen develop good habits and safe driving skills, your role as a parent is to schedule structured practice lessons. Sitting in the passenger seat isn't enough. Each session needs to be planned so the location is safe and appropriate for the specific skills and maneuvers your teen will practice. You need to coach your teen through each session of driving a car.
The Teens Learn to Drive (TL2D) Program has been developed to provide you an easy step-by-step guide as you take on the role of driving coach and mentor. Research done by the CDC and others prove that parents are the key to buiding their teen's safe driving habits. The TL2D program includes a workbook with 300 letter-sized pages. The book is called "3 Keys to Keeping Your Teen Alive: Lessons for Surviving the First Year of Driving". It also comes with this companion web site which has a free online video library containing short instructional videos which your teen can watch before your in-car driving sessions. Your teen will learn a lot about how to drive a car safely just from watching the videos.
You can help your teen learn to drive safely by coaching them through all of those tricky situations so they get that crucial practice and develop the reflexive skills they need to survive! All the tips and techniques from the experts are in the book and on the web site. The 25 lesson plans are structured to give you and your teen the best approach to building those safe driving skills and learning all there is to know about driving. The on-line videos made by professional driving instructors can be watched several times by your teen. They can then relate their own experience to what the videos teach them, what the workbook teaches them and what you teach them. This combination makes for a very powerful learning experience. You may have noticed that your teen doesn't always "get-it" the first time you tell them....this multi media program is designed to overcome that.
Some of the things you'll discover in this program:
- 25 detailed step-by-step in-car driving lesson plans for you and your teen to practice together
- Dozens of bite-sized, easy-to-follow instructional driving videos so teens know exactly what to do before the in-car sessions
- 8 checklists to cover everything from weather conditions to handling emergency breakdowns
- Fill-in-the-blanks Family Driving Contracts for each stage of GDL (because this is one area where "I thought you meant ..." just won't do!)
- 12 months of Driving Logs to track your teens driving practice and experience behind the wheel
- An Accident Report Form -- just in case!
- Where to find cheap or free supplementary driving programs
- Great tips to save you $1,000s on gas, vehicle maintenance and insurance!
Each driving lesson includes:
- A clear objective and skills to practice so you'll know exactly what to concentrate on for each lesson.
- Coaching tips so you'll be able to communicate clearly and work with your teen without losing your cool.
- Recommendations for lesson length and location so you can plan each lesson effectively and safely.
- Instructions and tips that relate to the skills, locations and objectives - so you get it right -- and don't pass on your own bad habits.
- Checklists to make sure you cover all the bases, so your teen experiencing most driving situations while they have you at their side to coach them through it!
- Most lessons have related instructional videos from companies like Ford, Allstate and Bridgestone so you know the instructions are dependable and you can clearly see how things should be done -- instead of trying to figure it yourself.
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