Being a instructor(for my wife)

altin_2

hi.
My wife is thinking to get some driving lessons.
Checking the prices(about £25 p/h),she is better off by taking lessons with ME.
Well driving is not only.....this is first gear, this second etc,stop at red light go with green.....
I've been driving for about 10 years,so no problems with documentations etc.
Is any helping guide of how to help her???(does it make any sense??)
Or a web help.
thank you

tomstickland

I'd be careful, often it can be better for relationships to let an independant 3rd party do the instruction.

cajef

Of course you know how to teach all the necessary road craft, manoeuvres and requirements to the standard that the driving examiner is looking for. :huh:

One of the worst jobs driving instructors have is sorting out and correcting the problems that untrained people have given pupils prior to having proper lessons by a qualified instructor.:rolleyes:

Tiddlywinks

I wouldn't take out a learner driver until they had had quite a few lessons to be taught how to do things properly first. We all pick up bad habits over the years and it's easy to pass them on to someone who doesn't know any better without even knowing we're doing it.

Also, with someone so new to driving dual controls are pretty essential unless you want to keep yanking on the handbrake everytime the car rolls back on a hill or is aimed at an unsuspecting car pedestrian:eek: .

Your choice, your relationship, but it probably won't be a bonding experience or help marital harmony;) . Divorce will be a hell of a lot more expensive than those driving lessons:rotfl: :rotfl: .

cajef

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I wouldn't take out a learner driver until they had had quite a few lessons to be taught how to do things properly first.

Also, with someone so new to driving dual controls are pretty essential unless you want to keep yanking on the handbrake everytime the car rolls back on a hill or is aimed at an unsuspecting car pedestrian:eek:

Good advice, most instructors encourage partners/parents to take pupils out, the more driving experience they get the better, BUT only after they have several lessons and the instructor feels they can be let loose in a car without dual controls and then they request that they do not try to change anything from the lessons they have had with the instructor.

People think all you have to do is sit there and it is a piece of cake to teach someone to drive, it is quite a skillful job to train people not only up to test standard but also to make sure they become a safe and competent driver when they eventually do pass.

And you need nerves of steel and your wits about you as someone heads towards a junction or roundabout without slowing down or looking to see if anything is coming.

anewman

I agree with others. She should get a decent instructor. Once she has built up some confidence and would simply be practicing then you can save paying £25 an hour to just practice. Practice in conjunction with lessons would be best.

Instructors are regularly tested on their instructing, so 10 years driving experience isn't quite the same as an instructor's experience.

I remember my instructor pointing out a learner driver on a test, saying he had failed as he didn't enter the cross hatch markings to turn right at a cross roads. They were not in a driving school car so that suggests to me whatever they were being taught wasn't good enough to get them through the test.

zeon999

Well I am going to have to agree with everybody else dont do it, as you will only pass on bad hbits without even realising. Only take her out once she has had a load on proper lessons.

At the most I would take her out to an open space, we got a local unused airfield and just teach her the very very basics of making the car go and stopping the car, just so she aint gotta worry about how to make a car move and the rules of the road all in one go.

But even thats not really needed and your best just leaving it to the pros till she has got it down pretty good then take her out just to get more experiance.

altin_2

Hi.
Thank you to everyone for replyes.
Yes what i was thinking is taking her out at very quiet roads to teach her the very basics.
But definitely will not be worthy,don't beleive will have nerves to take her out on the roads.

by anewman
Once she has built up some confidence and would simply be practicing then you can save paying £25 an hour to just practice. Practice in conjunction with lessons would be best.

I beleive this is a good advice(with consideration to the others).
Thank you again.
P.S.for some reasons this forum have some very good decent people.
To me is becoming like the first place to ask for any problems.
:T :T:T :T

Hintza

As has been said and discounting the benefits of an instructor. It could be very stressful can the marriage survive it....;)