{"id":13726,"date":"2015-06-02T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T23:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momservations.com\/?p=13726"},"modified":"2015-06-02T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T23:27:17","slug":"hes-got-a-ticket-to-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/02\/hes-got-a-ticket-to-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s Got a Ticket to Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Momservation: <\/strong>He\u2019s my kid when he aces a final. He\u2019s your kid when he misses the toilet again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u263a<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13728\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13728\" src=\"https:\/\/momservations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/383-2-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Not a mugshot. Just trying to look cool in permit photo\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not a mugshot. Just trying to look cool in permit photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am an official back seat driver.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, make that an official shotgun seat driver. If I\u2019m sitting in the back seat, although it feels much safer, I can\u2019t stomp my phantom break trying to get my kid not to take a turn at 25 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, it\u2019s permit driving time. My 15 \u00bd year-old son is driving me around like Miss Daisy. Rides to the store. Rides to and from school. Rides to pick up his sister. Rides to go buy more tampons. There is no errand to short, too long, or too never-mind. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VMxyK9azXR4\">He&#8217;s got a ticket to drive and he don\u2019t care<\/a> where we go.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Logan\u2019s a good driver. Don\u2019t tell\u2026but I\u2019ve been letting him drive around the neighborhood since before his 15<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. His 14 year-old sister too. (Sorry about the lawn job, BTW Mrs. Taylor. It takes a few times until they learn spatial sense. But better your begonias than my left fender. Much cheaper replacement cost.)<\/p>\n<p>Logan did everything early as a baby\u2014rolled over, crawled, walked, talked\u2014well before any kids his age. Hubby used to say I put him through Baby Boot Camp so that I would witness all his first milestones before our childcare provider did. Yeah, kinda.<\/p>\n<p>But when he learned to ride a bike at three and was hitting in-the-park home runs in T-ball and scoring at will in Peewee soccer we started to realize that being ahead of the curve is just Logan.<\/p>\n<p>So you could say we were hardly surprised when we got a phone call from our son during his required one hour Beginning Driver Training lesson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey Dad. The instructor wants to know if he can take me for a two-hour lesson that will take me out of the neighborhood and include freeway driving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUm, you aren\u2019t driving right now are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, no. The instructor had me pull over to call you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh good,\u201d Hubby breathed relieved that he hadn\u2019t hired a hack to teach his son to drive. \u201cYeah, that\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, add driving to the long list of things Logan is freakishly good at,\u201d Hubby told me when he got off the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdd driving to the long list of things his mother is excellent at teaching him,\u201d I smiled smugly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it\u2019s sink or swim with you! You had him driving and merging during rush hour and trying to park in Loehman\u2019s Plaza during the dinner rush!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey. Don\u2019t doubt the methods of the sensei. Walking at 8 months. First word was \u201chelicopter.\u201d Potty trained at a year and a half. Getting kicked up to Advanced Driver Training on his first try\u2014this is what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright then sensei,\u201d countered Hubby. \u201cHow about the master getting her young grasshopper to keep his room clean then?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTHAT is not what I do. The cleaning genre is not my level of expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExplains why the dog is afraid of the mop and vacuum cleaner\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#TrueStory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is he a wunderkind or am I just that good?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[1698,1271,1699,1700,2,86,3,5,28,1701,1702,1361,1703,1704],"class_list":["post-13726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting-humor-2","tag-beatles","tag-best-mom-blogs","tag-driver-training","tag-drivers-permit","tag-family","tag-kelli-wheeler","tag-kids","tag-momservations","tag-parenting-humor","tag-teaching-your-teen-to-drive","tag-teenage-milestones","tag-teens","tag-teens-and-driving","tag-ticket-to-ride"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>He&#039;s Got a Ticket to Drive - Kelli M. 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