Posted by Hal/Eastern WA on September 27, 2012 at 12:34:16 from (97.115.161.244):
In Reply to: Thankful Today... posted by Used-to-be-Iowa-Dave on September 26, 2012 at 23:29:38:
I am sure glad she wasn"t hurt. As you described the incident, it seems really scary.
Kids don"t have the best judgment, and I question the idea of a 14 year old driving. Years ago there were farm permits that allowed young drivers to help with harvest in my state, but I don"t think there was ever any way that a 14 year old could legally drive to school. In the last few years my state has added a BUNCH of new rules that control the hours a new driver can drive (at 16) and who they can give rides to.
My guess is that there is more to the story than what your daughter has told you. I also would guess that she was going WAY too fast on the gravel. Hopefully she has learned something.
If she was my child, I would not let her drive for a while. There probably is a school bus available. She needs to KNOW that the accident is a BIG THING.
My oldest stepdaughter used poor judgment driving when she was in high school. In one incident I could see her tracks on a gravel road where she had actually been up on two wheels for about 50 feet. She didn"t roll the car, but both tires on that side came off the rims and went flat, so she had to call me. I also got complaints about her driving fast and squirreling around the area from neighbors. She was punished in various ways, including losing her driver"s license for months. The only thing that really seemed to impress her was when I told her that if I got one more complaint from a neighbor, her driver"s license and the keys to the car she bought would reside in my pocket until she turned 18 AND moved out of my house.
I learned from my experiences with Patti. I chose the cars that our other children drove, and I really never had much trouble with the other 4. They all had little scrapes with the not-too-valuable and not very fast cars I allowed them to drive. But no more excited and angry calls from neighbors.
Good luck with your daughter, and DO be thankful that it wasn"t much worse. But I hope you can impress on her that it IS a BIG DEAL that could have been the worst day of your life...and hers. Nothing can replace a lost child.
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