Monday, February 13, 2017

My daughter has crashed her car again. What is a suitable punishment that teaches her to be more careful?

There are no suitable punishments. Punishment is barbaric. Behavior motivated by fear of punishment is not moral. Never punish your daughter.

The natural consequence of her bad driving is that she bears the cost of the accident. That means insurance, and damage to each vehicle.

If she can’t afford her own car she probably shouldn’t have one. If you are supporting her through college, support her with a budget and let her figure out how to get and operate a car on that budget.

Edit:

While I don’t advocate giving a car to a kid, I strongly advocate getting them real driving lessons. I don’t mean the kind where some bored hack in a Toyota with two brake pedals Facebooks while your kid drives them around town. I mean something like this, on a track, wearing helmets, with a real driving instructor:

Simraceway Performance Driving Center -

At very, very least get her to a Street Survival Course[1] .

It could save her life. She’s clearly not well trained now.

Footnotes

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