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Okay, the preliminaries are over. Your teen has acquired a learner’s permit; it’s time to let the student take control of the vehicle.

Where should you start?

The best place is a big, unoccupied parking lot. There are plenty of them around:

—an office building after hours

—a shopping mall early in the morning

—your local place of worship any weekday

—your high school parking lot

A high school lot could be doubly useful, if it contains painted lanes and pylons for driving instruction. Look around; you’ll find a suitable place. Try to find one that has several rows of spaces, so you can move along repeating and continuous patterns.

Empty parking lots are ideal because they offer plenty of space as well as defined areas; they are very forgiving of errors. The one I chose for my girls was in a nearby neighborhood park. It was perfect: two paved areas split by a grassy median and connected at both ends. It even had speed bumps, which also can be useful. Most important, although the lot was relatively small, it was almost always empty during weekdays after school. Find an empty parking lot, and you’ll be ready to begin the instruction.