{"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means."} ~Albert Einstein |
It turns out I am a terrible driver.
Oh- I was told so in a very respectable way.
But I am now completely aware of all the mistakes I have and am making while I behind the wheel.
Did you know I tail gate?
And...I definitely do not stop at a Stop sign for the mandatory 3 seconds.
Don't even ask about shoulder checking.
Or drinking coffee behind the wheel.
Turns out that when your teenager takes a Drivers Education class.....they become super smart.
And you realize how much you aren't doing correctly.
And...how much you are being watched.
{"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
~George Bernard Shaw}
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Turns out it doesn't just happen with us humans.
My "old" dog is being followed by the "new dog".
Everything the "old" dog does...the new one copies.
Looking that way.
Then this way.
Look left.
Then forward again.
(Seems as though my dog would have no problem with shoulder checking;)
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{"A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not."}
I am wishing I would have been a bit more careful in all I have done up to this point while raising kids.
Although....
by the sounds of things,
there does come a point when your teenager seems to know more than you do.
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{Be a positive example at all times, and when necessary- use words.}
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Thinking I may need to sign myself in to that Drivers Education class today....
