Teen Drivers and Car Care My husband and I have two girls…
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Teen Drivers and Car Care
My husband and I have two girls both 17f in a blended family. We have vehicles for them to drive, we oversee the maintenance and they pay part of the car insurance and gas. They help with driving their siblings to activities and get themselves to work school, etc.
My 17-year-old went for 2 nights up to the beach. She stayed with friends and their parents at their house for the holiday weekend.
She came back in the mid afternoon on Sunday. Sand was expected, but there was sunblock on the radio face, one of the windows looks like it may have been hit with something it might be cracked on the outside. And overall the amount of salt stains looks like she drove the car way more than she let on and allowed a lot of wet bathing suits and sweaty people inside when she told us the car would be parked.
her attitude was just poor when it came to understanding why we would expect her to clean it out and keep it in good condition. She was cranky and did the bare minimum vacuum and then went to bed. He tried to clean the salt out.
My husband is frustrated as her attitude is part of the problem. He takes a lot of pride in having nice clean cars and feels like she’s not doing her part.
I’ve limited her driving before and I feel like maybe just going to work and back for the next few weeks might give her the understanding that this is not a vehicle that is just for fun and that it cost us a lot of money and we don’t want it to get ruined.
Thoughts?
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My husband and I have two girls both 17f in a blended family. We have vehicles for them to drive, we oversee the maintenance and they pay part of the car insurance and gas. They help with driving their siblings to activities and get themselves to work school, etc.
My 17-year-old went for 2 nights up to the beach. She stayed with friends and their parents at their house for the holiday weekend.
She came back in the mid afternoon on Sunday. Sand was expected, but there was sunblock on the radio face, one of the windows looks like it may have been hit with something it might be cracked on the outside. And overall the amount of salt stains looks like she drove the car way more than she let on and allowed a lot of wet bathing suits and sweaty people inside when she told us the car would be parked.
her attitude was just poor when it came to understanding why we would expect her to clean it out and keep it in good condition. She was cranky and did the bare minimum vacuum and then went to bed. He tried to clean the salt out.
My husband is frustrated as her attitude is part of the problem. He takes a lot of pride in having nice clean cars and feels like she’s not doing her part.
I’ve limited her driving before and I feel like maybe just going to work and back for the next few weeks might give her the understanding that this is not a vehicle that is just for fun and that it cost us a lot of money and we don’t want it to get ruined.
Thoughts?
.
#relationships
source
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