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Since beginning work at Rappahannock Family Guidance Services in 1977 (part-time then), I’ve had the opportunity to work with dozens of courteous, careful and mature adolescents. Due to the nature of my work; however, I’ve also had dozens of opportunities to talk to teenagers who did not possess those adjectives.
I’ve concluded a large majority fit somewhere between the two extremes which, I suppose, is fortunate for their parents (me,too!) In my counseling work with these young people, sooner or later the issue of driving a car moves to the front of the “therapeutic agenda”.
Acquiring a drivers license is a major right of passage in our society that bestows honor, prestige, and I D. and a heightened level of “coolness” (not necessarily in that order). A license increases a boy’s or girl’s mobility and decreases a parent’s transportation burden.
Driving is an important skill that is absolutely essential to normal functioning in our mobile culture. Possession of a drivers license is a great and good thing, but it brings on the confrontation by society, families and the teens themselves with a challenging dilemma.
An important question is; how do they learn to drive and live long enough to teach their children to drive? This became my personal dilemma when my own son received his license.
I don’t possess the knowledge or wisdom to provide a solution to this dilemma, but I think I do have the clinical experience to make some valid observations.
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