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When parents struggle to teach emergency preparedness to resistant teens

My teenager is learning to drive and I've been trying to teach them basic car emergency skills, but we end up fighting because they think I'm being dramatic about scenarios that 'will never happen' and I'm realizing I might not actually know enough to teach them properly.

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A parent is confronting both their own knowledge gaps and their teenager's developmental inability to perceive risk, creating a dangerous combination.

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