Working With a New Driver - A Parent's Guide
Price: $50
Teaching your teen to drive is a big job—but most parents are never actually taught how to do it.
Working with a New Driver was created to help parent instructors turn required behind-the-wheel practice into meaningful driving instruction. We’ll share the same practical techniques, coaching strategies, and little tricks professional driving instructors use every day to help new drivers become safe, confident, independent drivers.
You Know How to Drive. But Do You Know How to Teach Someone Else?
There’s a big difference between being an experienced driver and teaching a brand-new driver.
That’s where Working with a New Driver comes in.
This short, practical course is designed specifically for parents and other adults teaching a teen to drive. Rather than overwhelming you with traffic laws your teen is already learning in Driver Education, we focus on what happens in the passenger seat.
You'll learn how professional instructors introduce and reinforce important behind-the-wheel skills—from the very first trip around a parking lot through preparing for the driving test.
We'll cover practical topics such as proper seating and pedal control, mirrors and visual awareness, steering, stopping, signaling, intersections, lane changes, backing, parallel parking, and preparing for the Texas driving test.
But more importantly, we'll teach you how to teach.
At first, you'll tell your new driver what to do. Then you'll begin asking questions. Next, you'll let them make the decisions. Eventually, you'll simply observe.
Because completing the required driving hours isn't the real goal.
The goal is to make yourself unnecessary.
When your teen can recognize hazards, make good decisions, and safely manage the vehicle without someone coaching from the passenger seat, you didn't just log the hours—you taught your kid to drive.
I think that last line deserves to become part of the identity of this program. It ties the webpage directly to what makes the course different: this isn't another class teaching teenagers how to drive. It's a class teaching parents how to teach them.
Price: $50