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Daughter's First "Solo" Drive Today

Cityboy

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As I type this our 16 year old daughter is on her way to school, driving solo for the first time, and I'm sitting here being the concerned dad. I know she will be fine because we have made the trip in the passenger seat as she drove many times, and she has many hours under our supervision for more than a year, plus all the driver safety training. She has even driven hundreds of miles of our Oklahoma to Georgia round trips too.

It seems like yesterday when she was a newborn, and now (all of a sudden it seems :blink:) less than two years from college. Gosh, how fast time passes! If I'm feeling nostalgic like this on her first solo drive, I'm gonna be a basket case when the empty nester days come.
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Well, she just called me from the school parking lot to let me know she arrived safely. :clap:This afternoon she'll be helping haul some supplies for one of the homecoming parade float she and her Art Club are building. (She's driving the '92 K1500) She's a good kid and we are very proud of her. Now if I can survive the trip home, and get used to the fact that my baby girl is growing up..........
 
My last one left two weeks ago for her second year of college. Yeah time flies and the older you get the faster it goes.
 
Congratz on the success of raising a responsible young woman.

Those feelings of concern never go away.

Just a FYI, I refused to allow my sons to get their license unless they could drive a standard shift and their first vehicles were standards. You never know when they'll need to operate one!
 
Congrats CB. It doesn't get any easier from here on out. College will be another worry for you.....especially if you remember your antics from way back then. I know I did and that bothered me, but from what they've told me my girls were not near as wild as their dad was in college. :hide: At least they have me believing that. :D

I did the same dawg. All my kids learned to drive a standard first. Took their test in it and everything. It was funny when number two daughter (Blondie) got her first car that was an automatic she had to say, I'm not sure if I can drive and automatic. :yum: As you would guess she figured it out just fine. :D
 
Big Dog said:
Congratz on the success of raising a responsible young woman.

Those feelings of concern never go away.

Just a FYI, I refused to allow my sons to get their license unless they could drive a standard shift and their first vehicles were standards. You never know when they'll need to operate one!
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Thanks, BD & everybody.

She can drive my Honda Accord straight shift half-way decent. We already have let my 13 YO son drive it around the neighborhood some. He's already said he'd like to drive it to school when he gets his license. I didn't make her take her driving test in it though, but if push came to shove, she can handle one right now, and she will be driving it off and on. She knows that skill will expand her driving opportunities. She's driven the diesel Excursion more than anything else, so she's used to manuvering full sized pick-ups.

Now she just has to figure out how to earn $75 per month for her insurance plus gas money. :flowers:
 
My oldest is my 11 year old daughter. My wife says that I spoil her so much that it will be hard for another man to live up to that and that way I keep my baby girl forever. I'm dreading the marriage part so much that I made a shirt that had her picture on it and the caption above it said "Boys Beware! Daddy's little girl is going to break your Heart!" and then below the picture it said "Or Daddy is going to break your ribs!"
I can see her spreading her wings a little more each year and while it makes me proud it pulls at my heart too.
 
Mine is only 5 and you guys aren't helping me with future plans here.. It's bad enough that I don't get to see her at lunch like I used to.... There is no doubt that all of the kids talked about will grow up to be good citizens. If something ever happened to me and I had to pick one of you guys to be a role model for my kid.. I would have a tough time making that call. Lots of good life info that is learned from all of you folks.
 
Well I have no kids of course but I could understand how you could have felt while you watched leave to go to school. Heck, just reading it made me picture myself in your spot and I would be bitting my nails! Glad everything went smooth! :thumb:
 
I'm dreading the marriage part so much that I made a shirt that had her picture on it and the caption above it said "Boys Beware! Daddy's little girl is going to break your Heart!" and then below the picture it said "Or Daddy is going to break your ribs!"
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LOL that's pretty funny.

I'm going to put my 2 cents in, since I am the only girl in my family, and also "daddy's little girl". Trust your girls and take it easy on there boyfriends. If you chase the boy down the street with a ball bat or whatever elas comes to mind, your poor like girl will be crushed. It sounds like all of you have raised wonderful, smart girls. don't worry, they are soo much smarter than the boys and they will make the right decisions. You just have to give them the opportunity to prove themselves, after all "daddy's little girl" never wants to disappoint there father. And you are right, it is very hard to find someone who can live up to your father.
 
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