Carriage Driving 101

[Kathrine]

It is a bit out of the time-range, but I remember several times in the "Road to Avonlea" where children drive different carriages, both work ones and more passenger-minded ones.

BTW does anyone know when the first laws about children and driving were made?

-Kathrine

[Janabanana]

We live in a community where there are a lot of Amish and they drive buggies (which are a carriage of sorts). The kids do drive and probably don't go out much with them until they are 12-13. They are frequently seen driving work horses and wagons or carts to school or market or the fields and go out partying when they are 14- up in buggies that they rig with batteries for their radios and cd players!!! Just had to throw that in! I think that learning to drive would come at different ages in different families. Alot of it would be based on need and availability. Perhaps larger families had older children that learned earlier and so on.