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I'm new to posting in forums but I desperately need advice. My son has recently received his driver license. I'm so worried about him driving and I can't be with him all the time. Does anybody use any tracking devices to monitor your teens driving? What kind of a device do you recommend?
We never used tracking devices. What exactly are you worried about most?
Theoretically you've spent 16 years teaching your son to be an intelligent person who makes good choices. Why undermine all that with a tracking device???
I'm new to posting in forums but I desperately need advice. My son has recently received his driver license. I'm so worried about him driving and I can't be with him all the time. Does anybody use any tracking devices to monitor your teens driving? What kind of a device do you recommend?
It is normal to be worried. Try limiting his driving based on age. For instance, at first have him drive to and from school or a job. No night time driving until he has more experience.
I am surprised that a US State does not have a graduated driver's license system, for new drivers.......
Here in Ontario, any new driver has to go through a 2 year long graduated system where they cannot at first.........drive at night, have ANY alcohol in their blood, drive on a limited access highway, and they must have a fully licensed driver who is over the age of 25 with them at all times. They also cannot have any other passengers in the car.
The act of being convicted of ANY traffic offence.......sends them right back to the very beginning of the process, and extends the date when they will be granted a full unrestricted adult license.
In addition, any youth who quits high school before they have graduated, cannot get a driver's license before age 21. THAT in and of it's self is the most effective way to keep them in school, AND motivates them to stay in school.
So, the results............Over a 10 year period, the Province of Ontario has reduced automobile deaths for drivers under the age of 25 by HALF.
I have sympathy for the OP...........All I can suggest is that she control the son's driving, by limiting the use of the car, to day light hours, and local ( non highway driving ) and he should not be allowed to go out with a group of kids in the car. Keep the keys secure, so he can't "borrow the car ".
I'm new to posting in forums but I desperately need advice. My son has recently received his driver license. I'm so worried about him driving and I can't be with him all the time. Does anybody use any tracking devices to monitor your teens driving? What kind of a device do you recommend?
If you think your child needs a tracking device, then allowing him use of the car is a mistake, period. Seriously, if he's 16/17/18, whatever, and you need to monitor him like a young child, then giving him 4000 lbs of steel/glass/plastic that can go 100+ mph isn't a good plan.
On the other hand, if this is about you and not him, try and realize that and give the kid the responsibility he deserves. That can be tough, I know (and I do know), but part of the process of shepherd children through adolescence is allowing them to act unsupervised and to thereby learn how to function independently.
Let your son grow up and have some responsibility. And yes, that means having the car and being allowed to go out on his own. That's part of GROWING UP.
Alternatively, you can shelter him and never let him grow up, and at the age of 45 he'll still be living at home, letting you cook for him and do his laundry.
I am surprised that a US State does not have a graduated driver's license system, for new drivers...
Jim B.
In my area, I believe new drivers are not allowed to drive after 8 p.m. without an adult in the car. That's the only restriction that I know of, and that's only for my town - I don't believe that's a state restriction.
We will do a graduated program of driving with our kids, even though it's not required by the state. You don't just hand a 16-year-old a car without being sure that they can drive safely.
O.P., you sound afraid of what your kid might do. When he earned his drivers' license, did he juuuust squeak through?
How is his decision-making in other areas of life?
The fact that you refer to him as "my child!" doesn't give me a good feeling.
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