The Crossroads Principle: Fairness

When kids get tall enough to sit on your lap behind the steering wheel and still see the car in front of you, they are old enough to begin noticing the “customs of driving.” Not the rules, mind you, the implied agreements drivers have with each other.

We were at a stoplight and I was planning to turn left after the light changed. I waited for the oncoming car on the other side of the light to pass before turning left. My ten-year-old granddaughter asked, “How did you know to wait? You got to t...