A Scary Prospect -- What to do?

Thus, we hope he'll be taking flight lessons this summer, assuming all
goes
well with his grades. He thinks he's ready, and I hope he earns his
glider rating before next school year starts.

All well and good, but the magnitude of this endeavor had truly not sunk
in until he quite innocently said:

"Just think, Dad, in two years I'll be able to take a date out in the
plane!"

After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I just laughed -- but this brings
up a serious point that I've never seen addressed here. For those of you
who own aircraft, and have kids that have learned to fly, how did you
handle "borrowing the plane"? I mean, it's not quite the same as letting
him take the pickup down to the corner grocery...

Do you guys let your kids fly your plane?
--
Jay Honeck

Wow! What a conundrum. I doubt any of else can help much with
something as subjective as this. I'm not qualified to cite experiences. My
youngest is 38 and none of the four fly
I'm pretty sure you are level-headed enough to know whether your son is
or isn't the type that would say, "Hey! Watch this!" in order to impress a
peer. That's probably all you need to know. With as much stick time as he
has, I'm also pretty sure he doesn't relate Atlas to an X-Box.
Heeheehee, ain't daddying fun?