New Driver in the House

What we've got here is the "why do you have to blog everything" face...Haha. I always love her expressions. Right now Jayden is trying to get all her texting done so she can let everyone know that she won't be answering them for a while. Lol. I'm pretty sure the hour away from her phone didn't actually kill her :) Though I had a pic that made that seem like a lie....Haha!

She didn't really drive with her phone on her lap. This is just her showing off that I am stuck in the passenger seat... Haha. She drove around that parking lot doing whatever she wanted to practice and then she took her first trip out onto the road. Just to get rid of some of her nerves, we took the long detour home with the least amount of traffic. She did great! Being my 3rd child to get their Learners Permit, it doesn't make me all that nervous anymore. 

I thought I would be really nervous when Seth first started driving, but he is always pretty confident in what he does. He always tries to do his best so he always asks how to do better. By the end of his second lesson I had him perfectly reversing into single parking spots, with vehicles in every spot that touched it. He was pretty proud!  Jayden and I didn't have that same chance since it was pouring rain just before we went out so you couldn't really see any of the lines.

With Amy, she was a little more nervous, but she had a reason. She has been a little more reserved about doing things since her car accident a couple of years ago. She didn't really want to drive after that(she was a passenger, not the driver). After a bit though, she gained some confidence. She was driving on the highway in no time :) 

I try my best not to act nervous while they drive, and to talk calmly. What's the worst they could do....Haha. I think Jayden found me easy going. I kept joking with her that the worst that could happen where we were practicing, was that she would hit the rims on a curb and I was going to make her buy me all new tires and rims....Haha. She just brushed it off and said "I'll probably have a job soon". 

I should be a professional instructor, LOL. Amy and Jayden both still have their learners, but Seth has his fulls now and he is one of the best young drivers I have seen since moving to Nova Scotia. I don't know who regulates the driving schools around here, but they are doing a terrible job(Sorry, just needed to rant a little....Haha). The other problem we have here in my area is the testing instructors. This one woman has failed every single kid I know that has gone to her. The amount of kids I know that had to take it again, and passed days later with a different tester, makes me so mad. I don't know what her problem is. Money grab? Or just plain crankiness? :( Poor kids!

Anyone have any good stories about teaching their teens to drive??