Opinion: Mum’s L of a learning curve with teen in the driver’s seat | Jessica Stewart
My youngest child drove herself to work this morning. Her after-school and weekend job is across town in the martial arts school where we have both trained since she was five. We have been driving across Sydney, from the trees and water of the land just north of Parramatta River, the river that cuts through Sydney opening into the Harbour, to the denser, dirtier, livelier inner-south-west for twelve years.We have made that trip upward of 3000 times.
We have driven through tantrums and meltdowns, a collapsing world of primary school loyalties, fairly bestowed awards, pride and estrangements. I have pulled over to climb into the back and hold a small girl beset by sudden terror about her adequacy.
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