Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

Q: Why is Parents for Teens Driving Safely targeting the parents and not the teen driver?  

A: The fact is, the majority of parents are not prepared to teach their teen to drive.  If you disagree, great! This is the point I'm trying to make.  Most parents think they can competently teach their teens to drive.  No surprise they think that, right? You're probably one of them.  Simply, most parents do not have an understanding of the learning process, lesson plans, critiques, and other essential teaching knowledge.  For instruction to be effective and produce desired results, instructional elements must be understood and applied.  To make matters worse, parents usually do not have adequate time or are too distracted by other things to administer an effective lesson. Consequently, the training parents provide often consists of a few parking lot lessons followed by several more trips to the grocery store, local mall, and the like.  Unfortunately, parents do not have any established standards (besides their own) at their disposal to gauge their teen's progress.  Question: How do you know you are doing a good job teaching?  Your likely answer is because they are getting better at driving like you.  Typically, given a parent's best effort, the end result will be a teen driver with essentially no habit patterns, lacks basic proficiency, and often demonstrates poor judgment.  Since this is the typical way teens learn to drive, no wonder every year so many of our children are killed and seriously injured.