Parenting
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My guy had a condescending attitude and a uniform, so I remember him as a cop.
Jeez, can you imagine that job? Having to be driven around by 15-17yo's every day, with little to no control on the car, ability to survive, etc. My heart wouldn't take it, and I'd get fired for saying some honest truths to them. Fark that.
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My guy had a condescending attitude and a uniform, so I remember him as a cop.
Jeez, can you imagine that job? Having to be driven around by 15-17yo's every day, with little to no control on the car, ability to survive, etc. My heart wouldn't take it, and I'd get fired for saying some honest truths to them. Fark that.
Terrible job.
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I passed, but to be fair back then you had to basically kill someone to fail.
So true. I was 15 and bloody useless, didn't kill anyone so I was given a little green book to go and kill someone. Mostly myself, but others got lucky.
For my test the piss taking of me was something my father would have been proud of during my "lessons". Refer to the first car thread for ways to humiliate your child whilst not teaching them to drive.
I'm trying to remember, but I think I did my test with a cop. That would be 1983. When did they stop doing it?
Wikipedia tells me that traffic and police merged in 1992, so it would have been the traffic cops back when you did it. Most of the guys on here won't have experienced a time when the police didn't do any road policing. I mean technically they could have, they just didn't. The traffic cops drove around in their black and white Belmonts and scraped teenagers off the roads and unwrapped drunks from around power poles. We had a family friend who was a traffic cop in Whangarei and he had an opinion that the 5 year gap between driving age and drinking age were to blame for a lot of teenage deaths, as every 17 year old from town knew you could drive to a country pub and get a drink, then drive back towards town before stacking your EH Holden into a farmer's paddock.
Oh and @Hooroo you can feel free to suck my left one. My 80 year old left one.
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I passed, but to be fair back then you had to basically kill someone to fail.
So true. I was 15 and bloody useless, didn't kill anyone so I was given a little green book to go and kill someone. Mostly myself, but others got lucky.
For my test the piss taking of me was something my father would have been proud of during my "lessons". Refer to the first car thread for ways to humiliate your child whilst not teaching them to drive.
I'm trying to remember, but I think I did my test with a cop. That would be 1983. When did they stop doing it?
Wikipedia tells me that traffic and police merged in 1992, so it would have been the traffic cops back when you did it. Most of the guys on here won't have experienced a time when the police didn't do any road policing. I mean technically they could have, they just didn't. The traffic cops drove around in their black and white Belmonts and scraped teenagers off the roads and unwrapped drunks from around power poles. We had a family friend who was a traffic cop in Whangarei and he had an opinion that the 5 year gap between driving age and drinking age were to blame for a lot of teenage deaths, as every 17 year old from town knew you could drive to a country pub and get a drink, then drive back towards town before stacking your EH Holden into a farmer's paddock.
Oh and @Hooroo you can feel free to suck my left one. My 80 year old left one.
Love you man!!! 😁🥰
I remember when they were in black and white Mitsi V3000’s.
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I remember the MOT "cops" and the merger, but not as a driver. The change from police doing driver licence testing was 2000 or so when testing for the full licence was introduced, as I got my restricted from the police, but had to do the full test through the AA as the system changed after I got my restricted.
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I'm trying to remember, but I think I did my test with a cop. That would be 1983. When did they stop doing it?
1948...…
Fuck @JC really is old.
My guy had a condescending attitude and a uniform, so I remember him as a cop.
Cops were still testing when I did mine in 1984.
I managed to back into the car behind me in the parallel park but still got my licence.
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@taniwharugby said in Parenting:
@Godder the learner/restricted/full thing was well before 2000, I got my learners on my 15th birthday in 1989
You didn't need to sit a test for your Full Licence though, only for your restricted and then you got Full after 2(?) years of Restricted Driving unless you did a defensive driving course?
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@taniwharugby said in Parenting:
@Godder the learner/restricted/full thing was well before 2000, I got my learners on my 15th birthday in 1989, think it had been about for a bit before then too.
Google says 1987.
So quite a few of us were just handed a full licence at 15 irrespective of crashing, causing crashes, etc during our test with a cop. They all had bad moustaches as part of their uniform too. -
Miss 12 got busted messaging on her phone at midnight on a school night. Very unfortunate she tried to fire back at her Mum with "You and Dad are on your devices until all hours!"
I don't give a shit. Mrs TA, however, seems to hold a grudge about the fact she IS on her iPad a lot and generally watches videos to fall asleep at night ... which science has said is fucking awful for you, but what do THOSE people know?
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@NTA rarely do either of us ever take our phones into our room, we dont use iPads much either and never for watching stuff in our room (we do have a TV in there though) more so since Miss 11 stood on one of them and has cracked the screen.
TR Jnr is pushing the boundaries on his phone, but I say we dont have ours in our room, so neither do you.
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@taniwharugby said in Parenting:
@NTA rarely do either of us ever take our phones into our room, we dont use iPads much either and never for watching stuff in our room (we do have a TV in there though) more so since Miss 11 stood on one of them and has cracked the screen.
TR Jnr is pushing the boundaries on his phone, but I say we dont have ours in our room, so neither do you.
Ex and I got the boy an Iphone for his 12th birthday last friday. Needless to say there's already an absolute shitload of Star Wars and Bond memes getting sent. Just totally over the top. Some of them aren't even that funny.
I suspect he'll get annoyed at the constant bombardment and block my number sooner or later.
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Miss 12 got busted messaging on her phone at midnight on a school night. Very unfortunate she tried to fire back at her Mum with "You and Dad are on your devices until all hours!"
Get her a Fern login and restrict access through the router
separately, there was a thread on parental controls. I've been using the Deco M5 - easy, but not super useful now the number of devices has dropped. Lets you bar access to devices at certain times ... doesn't cover mobile data of course. Nothing will keep teenagers away from access to stuff they want - all you do is put in a bump in the road. And - if you do manage it - you set them up to go nuts as soon as the leave home.
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Miss 10 uses a kid messenger app on the iPad. Good thing is it’s linked to my acc so she can’t add or contact anyone without me allowing it. I can also see who she has been chatting to and see pics etc.
With the popularity of House Party during lockdown she’s enjoyed the ability to video call and IM her friends and cousins etc. -
@taniwharugby said in Parenting:
@NTA rarely do either of us ever take our phones into our room, we dont use iPads much either and never for watching stuff in our room (we do have a TV in there though) more so since Miss 11 stood on one of them and has cracked the screen.
TR Jnr is pushing the boundaries on his phone, but I say we dont have ours in our room, so neither do you.
Ex and I got the boy an Iphone for his 12th birthday last friday. Needless to say there's already an absolute shitload of Star Wars and Bond memes getting sent. Just totally over the top. Some of them aren't even that funny.
I suspect he'll get annoyed at the constant bombardment and block my number sooner or later.
He’s not alone there.
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Ah man so tonight I have a snorer and then the wildling got into our bed and now I'm wide awake and contemplating whether to have a cup of tea or not. Bed time is a struggle at the moment and this comes and goes I wish I knew the reason for it, she just suddenly decides one week to hate bed then goes back to being fine with it for months on end. It's like exorcist scene tantrums from a normally very well behaved 4yo.
Electronics aren't a problem for us yet she can fully navigate my phone to find music but I manage to keep her away from it the majority of the time.