How to teach your child the basics of driving: tips for parents

As a rule, children adopt the habits and preferences of their parents, so if your family has a car - get ready, very soon your favorite child asks to put him behind the wheel. How to teach your baby the basics of driving safely and correctly?

Home preparation, as well as in a driving school, should consist of two aspects - theory and practice. Great if from an early age a child could see how works in a given situationMom behind the wheel - this will help him study the characteristics of driving from the "inside."

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Theory. Start learning should always be with the theory. During a joint visit, explain and discuss everything that happens on the road. Tots usually already quite curious, so be sure to fill you with questions from the series: "Why do not we go?", "Why are we stopping?" "Why miss the blue car?" Explain why the brake before pedestrian crossings that are missing, "the aunt on the blue car" because it has a major road.

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Teach children traffic rules can be at home - on cards, books, developing cartoons.

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Learning practice. If your child is a teenager, and he feels comfortable in the driver's seat, and feet quite live up to the pedals - you can smoothly move on to practice. Take carefully to the choice of location - it should be a plain, where there are no other cars, playgrounds, dog walking, rolling balls and such other things. Once the basics are mastered, a ride in a car with a child in the rear seat. Only no comment about caught bumps, not very smooth shifting and too heavy braking.

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Tell us about the tricks and subtleties, which you know, those about whom he will not tell in driving school - like turn on the handbrake, get out of a skid, enter it, to slip, to rock the car to get out mud. Explain what aquaplaning, what would happen if in the wheels of a different pressure as a brake on the combined coating and so on. Teach not this week, but gradually.

All-karting! There is another great option - if your baby has a desire to learn to drive a vehicle - lead him to karting.

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The child will be in a safe environment under the supervision of specialists, but everything else will be able to realize the danger that emanates from the car. It is likely that a partner can grow into a full-fledged hobby.

Earlier, we wrote about any signs of the zodiac are the worst drivers.