{"id":11098,"date":"2010-04-21T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=11098"},"modified":"2010-04-21T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T12:00:58","slug":"fasten-your-seatbelts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/fasten-your-seatbelts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasten Your Seatbelts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something happened.<\/p>\n

Something terrifying yet exciting all at the same time. A certain someone in my house\u00a0 STARTED DRIVER’S ED LAST NIGHT!!!!!!<\/p>\n

As much as I looked forward to and dreaded this day her whole life, I am not ready. Do you hear me world? I am not ready for my little girl to drive. My husband has allowed her to back the car out of the driveway a few times and each time I am struck with a massive pain in my chest.<\/p>\n

I have read the statistics, I know how dangerous the roads are in my area. \u00a0We are taking all the required precautions before she gets her license; driver’s ed, online practice tests, and lots of practice in empty parking lots. \ud83d\ude42 Even though I am not ready, she is ready, her dad is ready, and deep down I am excited at the thought of not being a taxi driver for the next 16 years.<\/p>\n

The National Safety Council has created a program called Alive at 25<\/a> for parents like me. This program helps parents and kids work through real life examples that reinforce good driving skills. Midas is currently offering this program free to anyone who registers on the website<\/a>. I’ll be taking advantage of every free program available to help relieve some of these chest pains.<\/p>\n

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I know she will take the privilege of driving very seriously. Maryland makes it nearly impossible to get a driver’s license and for that I am thankful. Someone once told me that raising teenagers was harder than raising toddlers. I found it hard to believe back then. Not anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something happened. Something terrifying yet exciting all at the same time. A certain someone in my house\u00a0 STARTED DRIVER’S ED LAST NIGHT!!!!!! As much as I looked forward to and dreaded this day her whole life, I am not ready. Do you hear me world? I am not ready for my little girl to drive. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[145,889],"class_list":{"0":"post-11098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kids","7":"tag-alive-at-25","8":"tag-drivers-ed","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}