Stay involved
Once your
learner has their provisional licence, the real challenge begins.
Stay involved and help them through the P plate learning curve.
The challenge is to help your learner driver navigate the next
six months of P plate driving without crashing and help them build
a foundation for lifelong safe driving. Your P plate driver may
think they have no more learning to do, but nothing could be
further from reality.
You might consider negotiating rewards for making safe progress
towards six months on P plates with zero harm, or consequences for
not making safe progress.
Keep having sessions
This is a powerful time for a new driver to learn. They are able
to take ideas they get from driving together and apply them when
they drive alone. And vice versa - they can bring questions and
experiences from driving alone to sessions of driving
supervised.
Continue to encourage deep
experience – your P plater will benefit from thinking
like a learner driver and begin to notice smaller and smaller
mistakes.
