My daughter has been driving for a few weeks now, and the contract is working perfectly. She calls her mother or I every time she has a new errand to do or if she is ever held up at work or school. Part of why the contract is working so well is she is convinced we have placed a GPS tracking device in her car. We will never tell her differently. I truly believe the feeling we are “watching over” her at all times is a good thing. The thought of our boss (or parent) catching us doing something inappropriate keeps most of us in check on a daily basis.

My daughter has already had to stand up to peer pressure of a sort regarding her driving contract. She was at her boyfriend’s house last weekend and his dad ran out of sandpaper while working on a home project. Her boyfriend’s dad wanted my daughter to drive the two of them (she and her boyfriend) to Home Depot to pick up more sandpaper for him. In California 16-year-old drivers are first issued a provisional drivers license which has restrictions. One of the restrictions, among others, is they can only drive their siblings for the first year. Apparently, the father told her if they got pulled over to just lie and say her boyfriend was her brother.

Luckily my daughter did the right thing and told him she is not allowed to do that, so he sent his wife instead. Had my daughter not been bound by our contract, who knows what she would have done?


Inv. Jeff Brown