The above reports show that an added benefit of parent taught driver’s education is that, in addition to teaching their children to drive, parents themselves complete an 80-hour brush-up course! Parents who have signed affidavits of completion for their students have stated often that they have learned much from teaching their children how to drive and that their driving skills been enhanced as well.

Some programs simply send you a curriculum, videos, and tapes providing systematic parent-taught driver education.

Others require the student and parents to track their progress and accomplishments through each lesson. The NDTI program, for example, consists of seven levels. Each level has two parts. Part one is always classroom and part two is always behind the wheel. This is a concurrent program and the student must complete both classroom and the behind the wheel at each level with at least a 90% score before proceeding to the next level. Both the student and the parent must sign off at each level before being allowed by NDTI to graduate to the next level. Each student and parent has access to a 10-hour per day technical support team. Once the student has completed NDTI’s program and the technical support team has reviewed and approved all classroom and behind the wheel lessons, NDTI issues a completion certificate to be used with insurance companies to often obtain driver education discounts.

When considering parent-taught driver education programs always consider the thoroughness of the program, whether it is recognized in your state (if necessary), and whether your insurance company will give you a driver’s education discount. The most important factor, of course, is the safety of your children on the road behind the steering wheel.