Use this evaluation form to rate your parent's driving.

This is a silent assignment. In other words, you shouldn't make comments out loud while you observe. That might provoke or distract the driver which is dangerous (on many levels).

Here's some homework to help you know your vehicle better. Print this out, get a clipboard and head for the car you will be driving.

Some of this information can be found on the car's registration and insurance card, if you have one, as well as the owner's manual for your vehicle. A parent or guardian should accompany you with the keys to access these documents and to guide you as needed.

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration developed the following "checklist" for parental use in helping new drivers learn safe driving skills. Driver education begins the process in teaching teenagers how to drive. However, parental involvement is crucial to the student driver in developing more advanced road skills. See Chart Below.

Healthy relationships are about trust, honesty, and compromise. Sounds simple enough, but sometimes kids don’t see relationships in such black-and-white terms. Between "I just called to say hi," and "Why aren’t you texting me back?" lie many shades of gray that adults can help kids and teens understand. Being an adolescent can be tough.

Adolescence is a time when kids and teens learn how to make decisions about relationships with their friends, family, and girlfriends or boyfriends. What they learn now, about how to treat others, will affect relationships throughout their lifetime. But kids and teens can’t do this by themselves.