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Driving lessons...
Topic Started: Jul 8 2014, 06:33 PM (92 Views)
Red Rackham
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I gave my daughter a driving lesson earlier, I told her it wasn't a good idea and that she would be better off with a stranger. However it wasn't the disaster I envisaged, I only had to grab the steering wheel once! Fortunately I took her on quiet roads she certainly isn't ready for busy roads with lots of traffic yet. She has bags of confidence but frighteningly, no experience, and she cant seem to get out of the habbit of looking at the gear stick when she changes gear. I'm sure it will come together, eventually...
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papasmurf
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Red Rackham
Jul 8 2014, 06:33 PM
I gave my daughter a driving lesson earlier, I told her it wasn't a good idea and that she would be better off with a stranger. However it wasn't the disaster I envisaged, I only had to grab the steering wheel once! Fortunately I took her on quiet roads she certainly isn't ready for busy roads with lots of traffic yet. She has bags of confidence but frighteningly, no experience, and she cant seem to get out of the habbit of looking at the gear stick when she changes gear. I'm sure it will come together, eventually...
If you have a skid pan anywhere near where you live a session in that works wonders, for both novices and experts.
About looking at the gear lever, stopping that just takes time.
It could be worse:-

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Curious Cdn
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I've started to teach my 15 year old daughter (in empty parking lots) how to drive "manual". Only about 10% of the drivers over here have manual gearboxes in their cars and the driver's education schools are discontinuing "manual" training. Since I insist that my children learn how to drive properly, I am teaching her how to operate the stick and clutch, then we'll turn her over to the pros so that she can learn how to survive out there (and maybe even the Highway Code!) Anyway ... stuttering starts ... lots of stalls ... when I can smell my clutch starting to get hot, it's "lesson over for today". I have absolutely no doubt that shifting a car manually makes you generally much more aware of the total machine.
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Bolea9
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I also tried teaching driving to my daughter but on very first day we met with a small accident and now don’t want to teach her on my own. So I am thinking to enroll her with some reputed Port Macquarie Driving School so she can get training from professionals.
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Steve K
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Bolea9
Mar 23 2017, 09:43 AM
I also tried teaching driving to my daughter but on very first day we met with a small accident and now don’t want to teach her on my own. So I am thinking to enroll her with some reputed Port Macquarie Driving School so she can get training from professionals.
Well it's not every day you see a post about Port Macquarie

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Oddball
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IMHO, it is better that you or your nearest and dearest get the bulk of their initial driving teaching/learning from a professional with a dual controls car and no family emotional issues/concerns.

I had a few hours driving about in my brother's 5cwt Ford Thames van, before coughing up about 20 odd ££s to BSM for a 10 lesson course - then passed no problemo. When my wife wished to learn to drive, I tried sitting shotgun for her, but it was a high tension ordeal for both of us - suggested she took things to the BSM - where she had two or three courses of lessons and then passed 2nd time. In my own case I had had a modicum of learning with two previous years on motor scooters and light motorcycles.
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Tigger
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I always found shouting at my sons whilst teaching them to drive very effective, in fact it forced them into paying for their own driving lessons and letting someone else have all the frustration!

I'm a very bad parent in this respect. ;D
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