At 06:40 PM 5/24/2013, Aristotle Sagan wrote:
>So the question is... How do you ever let your young one out of the nest
>with a 2 ton death machine in their hands?

Dear Tim,

I heartily recommend that you do not personally teach her.  My
observations of parents teaching children to drive is that both
parties strongly tend to get overexcited, which interferes with the tuition.

It may help to remember that your own parents managed to let you
leave the house in a death machine.  If it doesn't make you feel
braver, it may at least give you some empathy for what they went through.

Remembering your own actions at that age may not be comforting.  But
the fact is that the great bulk of teen drivers do survive into adulthood.

Yours,
David