I just thought I'd post because I have been so blown away by the results.
Any of you with teenagers, might be able to relate or share some history or insight in how to motivate a kid these days in the world with electronics and usually instant gratification.
My 16.5 year old son finally took his test and received his TX DL. This has been a big step, because I was letting him have my 10 y/o 200K mi truck and I was still thinking he has it too easy. After all, I bought my first truck off my uncle's ranch without any financial assistance from my parents. Never had a dime contributed from them! So just to keep things honest, in my mind anyway, my agreement with him is that he pays from insurance and gas. And having my genes, I have been overly concerned with his driving habits and keeping him from doing 99% of the dumb $#!* I did at his age. After all, they throw you in jail for 80% of this stuff these days....
After some research, I find a tracking device that can be installed which gives you real time, history, alert customization, daily e-mailed reports, and tamper-proof(most important). I have to tell you folks, this is just as good and retaining the NSA to track your kid! I can tell every movement he made and when he made it. THE KEY has been to tell him up front! Once you get all the moaning, groaning, and objections out of the way he has realized his vehicle isn't going to be the party/screw-up wagon of his buddies. Literally, in the last 10-14 days he has owned up that multiple friends have asked him to go places that he knew were out of his bounds or to do things that I would have said "no" to. When his friends would insist with, "how's he going to know?". My son explained the nifty little device I hard wired in under the dash tracks every movement, they are dumbstruck with, "Nooo Waaay"!.
This has enabled me to coach and talk to him about certain habits that I would have never been able to catch him on without being in the vehicle. And believe it or not, he has accepted it and we have already negotiated his next boundry extension based on his daily scores. He mows yards for his money, he has even gotten more motivated about staying on top of and keeping his "coin" rolling in.
Anyone else had this experience??
Any of you with teenagers, might be able to relate or share some history or insight in how to motivate a kid these days in the world with electronics and usually instant gratification.
My 16.5 year old son finally took his test and received his TX DL. This has been a big step, because I was letting him have my 10 y/o 200K mi truck and I was still thinking he has it too easy. After all, I bought my first truck off my uncle's ranch without any financial assistance from my parents. Never had a dime contributed from them! So just to keep things honest, in my mind anyway, my agreement with him is that he pays from insurance and gas. And having my genes, I have been overly concerned with his driving habits and keeping him from doing 99% of the dumb $#!* I did at his age. After all, they throw you in jail for 80% of this stuff these days....
After some research, I find a tracking device that can be installed which gives you real time, history, alert customization, daily e-mailed reports, and tamper-proof(most important). I have to tell you folks, this is just as good and retaining the NSA to track your kid! I can tell every movement he made and when he made it. THE KEY has been to tell him up front! Once you get all the moaning, groaning, and objections out of the way he has realized his vehicle isn't going to be the party/screw-up wagon of his buddies. Literally, in the last 10-14 days he has owned up that multiple friends have asked him to go places that he knew were out of his bounds or to do things that I would have said "no" to. When his friends would insist with, "how's he going to know?". My son explained the nifty little device I hard wired in under the dash tracks every movement, they are dumbstruck with, "Nooo Waaay"!.
This has enabled me to coach and talk to him about certain habits that I would have never been able to catch him on without being in the vehicle. And believe it or not, he has accepted it and we have already negotiated his next boundry extension based on his daily scores. He mows yards for his money, he has even gotten more motivated about staying on top of and keeping his "coin" rolling in.
Anyone else had this experience??
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