Parents

This assignment is designed to create dialogue between parents and students about the family vehicle. You may use other questions for similar assignments. If a student doesn’t have a car at home; they could do this in a neighbor’s vehicle. As an instructor, I would go over these things in the driver ed car.

Here are some simple, but not always easy, lessons to learn in life.

A. To Become More Likeable:

   1. Look and act friendly-smile.
   2. Become a good listener.
   3. Show interest in others.
   4. Be truthful, keep your word.
   5. Avoid making fun of others.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration developed the following "checklist" for parental use in helping new drivers learn safe driving skills. Driver education begins the process in teaching teenagers how to drive. However, parental involvement is crucial to the student driver in developing more advanced road skills.

Experience and credentials don't necessarily make a good counselor, nor does the lack of them make a bad counselor.   Word of mouth referrals on who's good and who's not may be useful. Members of the clergy can be good if they fit the family definition of a helper.

At some point, most young people will experiment with drugs or alcohol.  Some will have a physical predisposition to addiction which will have to be dealt with differently than those who occasionally use these substances.

Just as most kids experiment with drugs and alcohol, most of them will skip a few classes or be late getting back from lunch period. However, this can create problems if they become involved in illegal behavior during that time, or accrue enough absences from a class to lose credit for that class.

What To Look For:

Enabling is anything that the parent does which makes it easier for the teen to persist in inappropriate behavior. It is often misconstrued as protecting your child, when in actuality it makes it harder for him to accept responsibility for himself and become independent. It can consist of: