It's time for your children to start the engine. Driving at night is the hardest.
Parents play two roles in educating safe drivers.
They serve as passenger-instructor when they observe their child's driving skills, and they also act as a model for good driving. Some parents are apt to leave driver's education up to their teen-ager's high school driving coach, but no driving course can be successful without plenty of time behind the wheel and reinforcement from parents. They learned that behavior from us. L.C. Bird High School driving coach Paul Hetterich tries to set a good example when he takes his students to Chesterfield County's Safety Town for the first time. It's a large, paved lot with buildings, sidewalks, traffic lights and parking spots where new drivers get a feel for the road - minus the traffic.