Comments on: A long weekend, memory, and the start of summer https://lauravanderkam.com/2023/05/a-long-weekend-memory-and-the-start-of-summer/ Writer, Author, Speaker Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2023/05/a-long-weekend-memory-and-the-start-of-summer/#comment-456831 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:35:15 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19153#comment-456831 In reply to Grateful Kae.

@Grateful Kae – yep, you can’t get it until you are 16 here, and then it’s 6 months on the road before you can test for your license (with a certain number of practice hours). I understand the graduated licensing, though I’m quite ready to have another driver in the house!

]]> By: Grateful Kae https://lauravanderkam.com/2023/05/a-long-weekend-memory-and-the-start-of-summer/#comment-456658 Wed, 31 May 2023 22:43:13 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19153#comment-456658 In your state they don’t allow a learner’s pemit until 16?? Here in WI they can get their learner’s permit at 15 now!! (Used to always be 15 1/2 until a year or two ago.) My son is still only 14, but turning 15 next month, and he already did the drivers ed classroom portion recently and took the temporary/ learner’s permit written test…. so on his 15th birthday we just have to go turn in the paperwork and test results to pick up his learner’s permit and he’ll be legally able to drive! (with us, of course.) Then at 16 (and after X # of driving hours logged with parents + X # of hours with an instructor), he can get his regular, independent license. Seems so young, but, I have heard a lot of good feedback re: the change to allowing the kids a full year with the permit before driving alone/ independently. In WI I guess one perk is that having the permit for a full calendar year = they have the chance to practice in all 4 seasons!

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