Grit dog wrote:
gbopp wrote:
Grit dog wrote:
Can't wait for 2 years from now when my 13 year old can take the helm and I can sit in back, seat reclined, playing video games and napping!
You're going to nap while a 16 year old student driver is at the helm? :W
Yeah!
He's a decent driver already. But our kids have been driving "things" since they were old enough to grab a handful of throttle. Both have been driving their own Sno machines, in the mountains, since they were 7-8, wheelers on the trail or dragging a mower around the yard around trees, pulling me behind the boat (this year), moonlighting in the vehicles on backroads. Both can drive a stick shift already.
This is not to say I just turn them loose, they are closely supervised, but by the time they go for their drivers test they'll be able to parallel park a long bed truck downtown and back a trailer up. I believe in building their skills as soon as they have the capability, so i know they will have the skill and presence of mind once they get cut loose with a drivers license and all the teenage distractions.
Excellent!!
That's how my dad taught me, and how I will teach my boys. My 5 yr old has been on his own gas atv for 6 months. He will ride his own snowmobile this winter. Granted they are both very low hp and slow.
My dad taught me how to drive in my grandparents fields at 12 or 13 with a 3 on the tree as the first vehicle I ever drove. Good memories!
