Teaching your teenager to drive?

04-06-2008 14:53

Stay sane, Stay home and phone a friend

As the cost of tuition rockets home lessons become a necessary evil. Here’s Young Marmalade’s 10 point guide to teaching your teenager to drive – or not.

For thousands of Britain’s teenagers it is the moment they have dreamed about and the moment they dread. For their parents it is a nightmare waiting to happen – driving lessons.

Young Marmalade – the UK’s leading supplier of affordable, quality cars and insurance to young drivers - is calling on teenagers and their parents to think twice before they get in a car together.

“Some parents make excellent drivers but terrible instructors when it comes to their offspring,” says Crispin Moger of Young Marmalade. “Our research shows that the whole parent teacher dynamic can lead to disaster.”

Young Marmalade asked its customers – parents and teenagers - for feedback on their early learner driver experiences. It has also been working with driving instructors the length and breadth of the country recording details about a young learner’s experience.

“Our research showed clearly there is a natural and unavoidable friction between Mum, Dad and their teenage children. Anyone who has lived with a teenager or remembers their teenage years will understand this,” says Moger.