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Originally Posted by Sliver
My son has been 14 for four months. Finally took him out in the manual transmission yesterday. I was expecting the usual struggles for a new driver using a clutch. Nope, this dude nailed it riiiiiight away.
My trick for teaching (not that I'm taking credit for him doing so well) is to make my kids put their left hand on their left knee. Make them push down with their hand on the clutch leg. This helps them to control how fast they release the clutch. It seems to really work.
Anyway, I thought we were just going to fata around in a parking lot for his first day in standard, but he ended up driving home in it including stopping at lights, dual turns, rowing through the gears. It was wild!
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I'm glad to see good dads out there when they're teaching kids how to drive. My dad was a prick and scared me (all 4 of us really) half to death when he was "teaching" us to drive. I didn't learn to drive a manual transmission until my 20s because of him and a family friend took me out and taught me and was so calm and gentle with her instruction - I learned in no time at all. I'm a good deal older than my younger brothers, so after I got married, my husband was taking 2 of my younger brothers out for driving lessons as soon as they got their learners, because our dad was so fricking rude.