Driving Miss Megan

My 16 year old has her driver's permit, a personal nightmare for me. The funny thing is that it's not my daughter's driving that I fear, it's all the things that she does IN MY MIND while she's driving and I am sitting next to her. Literally, she could be stopping, slowly, at a stop sign. I see her careening through the stop sign, being hit by an oncoming car. Literally she is just driving down the road, under the speed limit as she is extra cautious. In my mind, she is wildly speeding, doing a "drunkard's path" and hitting all dogs and pedestrians along Linwood's bike path. Needless to say, I have taken her driving a total of two times in what is almost a year. There's an old adage that says "Practice makes perfect". That is certainly true for learning how to drive, but Meg won't be getting her driving practice with me unless I am heavily medicated. However, I CAN teach math without the cognitive "visions" or being heavily medicated. Math is another subject where practice makes perfect. Does this hold true for all things in life? Can't we see or do things so often (the practice) that we don't see differences (other ways of doing or seeing things) for what they trully are? We make assumptions instead of observations, or our observations are tainted by our experiences. Although practice does make perfect in some areas of our lives, I think we must also remember that things aren't always as they seem. In a wonderful world of so much variety, we can't afford to "clump" experiences or people into our old and worn mental files...we would be missing out on life.