I am usually poking fun at my teen sons as they attempt to enter the world of driving. In the spirit of equality, today I have decided to give the teenagers a voice.

I asked my son's ice hockey team - which consists solely of 15- and 16-year-old boys - which bad driving habits of their parents that they hoped they didn't pick up. Herein might lie a lesson for all parents of teen drivers: Beware of what you do behind the wheel - your offspring are watching.

Christian Link, 15, of Corona said, "I don't want to drive three miles with my left blinker on, like my mother."

Aaron Sulaeman, 15, of San Bernardino said that he doesn't want to "take, like, 20 minutes to park" like his father.

Zach Henderson, 15, of Aliso Viejo and Criss Villarreal, 15, of Corona both said that they hoped that they had not genetically inherited their mother's feet of lead.

Scott Carlisle, 16, of San Diego said that while his mom, too, is a speedster, his dad "drives kind of like an old man." And Josh Valadez, 16, of Norco also said that he doesn't necessarily want to drive like his mom because she drives "way too slow."

Ty Kamiyama, 15, of Irvine; Travis Abrahamson, 15, of Palm Desert; and Brandon Duggan, 16, of Highland say it is their fathers who look at the speed limit signs as merely a suggestion. Abrahamson hopes that he will drive slower than his father because, "I don't want to crash and die!"

Dane Moore, 16, of Bonsall and Eric Laporte, 15, of Riverside hope to avoid their parents' tendency to shout their displeasure at other people while driving. And Jake Daniel, 16, of Corona said that he doesn't want to mimic his father's inclination to "cuss at people that slow down."

Brandon Booth, 15, of Upland hopes that he doesn't spend as much time fiddling with the volume on the radio as his folks, while Jordan Crenshaw, 15, of Banning says that he plans to spend more time watching the road than he feels his mom sometimes does.

Beau Mittleman, 15, of Palm Desert and Jake Brummett, 15, of Corona both don't want to imitate their parents' use of technological communication devices while driving.

Several of the boys used the opportunity to speak about their parents as leverage for possible higher future allowances. When asked which driving habits of his parents that he hoped not to emulate, without hesitation Jeremy Pearl, 16, of Encinitas said, "Nothing! My parents are perfect drivers!"

Jeremiah Holmes, 15, of Alta Loma was also pretty quick with the compliments as he said, "It would be pretty cool to drive like my dad. He's a cop."

And Andreas Djokic, 15, of Redlands said that he likes that his father leaves everyone else in his dust. "There's nothing wrong with the way my dad drives. The rest of the drivers just need to get off the road!"

Unfortunately, my own 15-year-old son, Clint, was unavailable for comment.

And as soon as this column goes to print, I promise, I will let him out of that locked closet.

Michelle Groh-Gordy is the owner of InterActive! Traffic School Online at www.trafficinteractive.com , and writes a syndicated weekly column on driving for the publications of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group.