I took Jean and Tom out the local elienmentry school for several hour od practice driving for 4 weekends BEFORE either got on the road.
Had them back up through the whole parking lot with the boat trailer, “park” the car in every one of 50 parking slots in a row, parallel park 8 times in a row, hit the brakes in (fake) emergency stops, start and stop, cross “streets”, start and stop in the manual gears, etc. every weekend without me in the car -> so they would get used to “driving” and controlling the car in an empty lot in different weather conditions before they started on the road when they (me!) had to worry about other cars.
That’s a good idea. We’d have to go to the high school to find a big enough parking lot, though.
Young Beau was 17 in April, but he’s not serious about getting a license. DP and I both stopped driving practice with him after he refused to stop or slow down when he was told.