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For parents & guardians

The part of this that is your job, not ours.

Massachusetts does not hand teen licensing to the driving school and walk away. The Junior Operator Law puts specific obligations on the parent, and most families find them out one at a time, late, and stressed. Here is all of it in one place.

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Your five obligations

What the RMV expects from you

  • 1

    Sit the two-hour parent class

    Required by the RMV before your teen can be licensed. It covers what you are about to be responsible for — and it is genuinely useful, not a box-tick.

  • 2

    Supervise 40 hours of driving

    30 if they complete a driver skills development program. These are your hours, not ours, and they are where most of the real learning happens.

  • 3

    Keep the log honest

    You certify it. Record each drive as you go — nobody can reconstruct forty hours from memory in the RMV parking lot.

  • 4

    Enforce the midnight rule

    Under 18 on a learner’s permit, your teen cannot drive between midnight and 5am unless you or a legal guardian are in the car.

  • 5

    Sign the road test application

    Applicants under 18 need a parent or guardian signature on the printed application. Without it, the test does not happen.

Supervising well

Forty hours is a lot. Make them count.

  • • Start boring. Empty parking lots and quiet streets before anything else. Confidence first, complexity later.
  • • Vary the conditions. Rain, dusk, dark, a busy Saturday. Forty hours of the same quiet Sunday route teaches forty hours of one road.
  • • Say what you see, not what you feel. "The light ahead is changing" beats a sharp intake of breath. Narrate the road, not your nerves.
  • • Let small mistakes finish. Grabbing the wheel teaches them nothing except that you will grab the wheel.
  • • End on something that went well. Always. It is the bit they remember until the next drive.
You are kept in the loop

You will not be chasing us for updates.

We tell you who is picking up your teen and in what car, how their hours are adding up against the RMV requirement, and what the instructor worked on each lesson. If anything is worrying us, you hear it from us first — not at the road test.

Ask us anything

Questions you would rather ask a person.

Call Amalia. No sales pitch — plenty of these calls end with "your teen is not ready yet, wait six months," and that is fine.

Call (774) 433-1153