The best preventive medicine is to have her carry by herself the costs of
buying and owning this very nice car.

Then, unless she's a total airhead, she'll decide on her own to practice
extensively in a vacant parking lot, preferably with a small slope, whence
she points the car downward, before going out on the streets.

Once she gets the basic idea down, practice is all that's necessary. Daddy
should get out of the car unless he can stay quiet and offer moral support.
Girl needs to concentrate.

"Steve" <yeah@right.com> wrote
> Sally has always been interested in cars. She's 19 and is trading in her
93
> automatic corolla for a 98 Civic EX coupe. we pick it up on Saturday. She
> has never driven a stick before. I have owned standards before and grew up
> driving motorcycles but I haven't had to teach someone to drive stick
> before.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. I read that you should have them try
> to get the car going without using the gas. Just by slowly letting the
> clutch out you can feel the transmission engage.
>
> Should be an interesting drive home on Saturday...