Hello friends!
Big news in the Johnson household this week — Atticus passed his driver’s permit test! 🎉 Which means my dream of having him drive himself to dance 428 times a week is one step closer to reality. (I jokingly promised to post his driving schedule online so everyone can stay safely at home…LOL)
🚗 A dancer who can (almost) drive
* Atticus officially has his permit, and we celebrated with a driving session after recording this episode
* We also ordered magnet bumper stickers from Amazon — a “student driver on board” set that accidentally came as a three-pack. One of the bonus magnets says something like “not drunk, just learning to drive for the first time.” If you see that on a car in Minnesota, you’ll want to keep your distance.
📖 How we studied (and actually made it fun)
* The MN DMV test center staff gave us the real tip: skip the random Google study guides and just read the official state permit manual PDF cover to cover
* The problem? Neither Atticus nor I are the “just scroll a PDF” type. We need something more engaging.
* Solution: I uploaded the PDF into Claude and had it build a full question bank from the manual — covering all the major knowledge areas — and then asked it to re-read the PDF and double-check every question for accuracy and completeness (AI has an overconfidence problem, and I know this from running a cybersecurity company)
* I also had Claude pull out a separate quiz bank just for traffic, warning, and construction signs — the visual stuff that shows up on the test
📱 Enter Quizlet
* Claude spit out a file formatted for Quizlet import — boom, instant flashcard set
* Our routine: a few nights in a row, we’d beam Quizlet from my iPad to the living room TV and run through 25–50 questions together
* Quizlet’s smart enough to track which questions he nailed and which needed more work, so we could focus the studying where it counted
* End result: he walked in and crushed it ✅
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