Teaching My Son to Drive (and Barely Surviving) via LaurieJStone
Patrick shoves the gearshift in reverse. The car jumps. Off we go, backing out too fast. The first “Slow down!” comes out of my mouth.
Today we leave our driveway. Patrick pulls onto our windy Connecticut road. Already I’m on full alert. A jogger is coming up on the right. A car’s coming toward us on the left. The road’s narrow. We’ll all meet at the same time. Patrick’s going too fast. “Slow down,” I repeat like a mantra. “Slow down, SLOW down, slow DOWN…” Phew. We make it.
I thought I’d be like my father who was calm and reassuring. And God knows he had his challenges. “Laurie, stop checking your hair in the rear view mirror,” he had to keep saying. My husband’s also a good teacher, but travels a lot. So this task, which requires confidence and steeliness, is left to the most skittish.
We travel along but I’m a cauldron of worries. If Patrick moves too close to the yellow line, I picture us hurtling into oncoming traffic. If he moves too far to the right, I see us wrapped around some tree. That afternoon we make it home in one piece. And over the next few months, Patrick and I go out several times a week. I never relax. I never get good at this, but a strange thing starts to happen.
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