Curious re driving lessons

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My 18 year old needs to learn to drive, no question. I wonder how many of you finance lessons vs. making them
pay themselves? My parent paid for me, just wondered what the standard was these days

Thanks for the responses

almost everyone I know has either paid for their kids’ driving lessons and/or taught them themselves. I did a massive amount of work myself getting both kids through.

We paid for the lessons for our DDs, who learned in their early-mid 20s. I think it was about 60 an hour, so very expensive- London. We don’t have a car, so all lessons and practice were done by the driving school. We wouldn’t dream of buying them a car, though, or paying for upkeep. One DD has her own car now, but the other hasn’t driven at all since she passed her test two years ago.

all of mine paid/are paying for their own, as i did.

i did take ds driving, he bought a car
my dd is another issue and i am not promising anything

We paid for 5/6 lessons each for DS and DD and otherwise taught them ourselves.

I applaud those of you who teach your DC yourselves

We’re paying but we live rurally with no public transport. We chose to live here so told the kids we would get them through their tests asap so they have some freedom.

I was a single parent when my Dad learned to drive. She was given a block of lessons by grandparents for her 17th and had a part time job. She bought a car cheaply from a family member. After a a block of lessons she then paid for her own from her part time job wages and I also took her out several times a week driving for practice.
She started learning at the end of August and passed her test just before Christmas, the practice in her own car helped hugely.

That should obviously read DD not Dad! 🤣

We couldn't afford to pay for lessons so I taught all of my dc to drive. We did an under 17 driving course together where a disused airfield was laid out like different kind of roads, and then started on quiet roads when they got their provisional.

All have passed and appear to be safe drivers.13 years between them now of driving experience.

Mine had driving lessons as their 17th birthday present. I feel like it's an important life skill and I'm happy to pay for it - also lucky to be able to pay for it of course.

I wouldn't have kept paying indefinitely though if they weren't putting the work in practicing with us outside of lessons and revising for their theory.

We paid for DD. We consider it a life skill and we were able to so we did.

We are paying for ds'. £85 for a 2-hour lesson. He does have money from his part-time job, but he's saving that for when he goes to uni in a year's time. We'd just end up having to fund him more then if we got him to use up his savings on driving lessons now.

I paid for lessons for both of mine, they had part-time jobs but no way they could've afforded £40 a lesson. DD had about 14 lessons, DS had about 20 I think because he failed his first test.

We paid for eldest dc's lessons and are now paying for youngest dc's.
I think most parents who are in a position to pay for them, do.

I'm paying for our DC's lessons as it makes them much more employable (and likely to be able to leave home). Also put them on car insurance so they can practise. Neither of those is cheap though.

Lessons combined with taking them out yourself is the quickest and cheapest way. Gives them a chance to have free practice time in the car between the paid lessons.

You could pay for lessons and then he needs to be earning enough to pay for insurance and petrol for his car?

it is the insurance that is a killer with young people which is what put dd off in her early 20s
she is late 20s now and getting there

I agree, if it's possible. I gained so much confidence just going out with my mum or dad. Same with my dd

I paid for mine but they were £20 an hour back then and I still struggled to afford it