Luke Bryan’s oldest son may already feel comfortable behind the controls of a 4-wheeler, but according to his famous dad, that confidence has not translated particularly well to the road.

The country star recently opened up about teaching 15-year-old Thomas “Bo” Boyer to drive, revealing that the teenager has reached the learner’s permit stage — and the lessons have apparently been anything but relaxing.

“He’s 15 so he’s doing the whole learner’s permit nightmare,” Bryan said during an appearance on Audacy’s Katie & Company.

Then came Dad’s assessment.

“He is not a very good driver right now, so we’re having to work with him pretty hard.”

Bo apparently thinks he has already figured it out

The biggest problem may not be Bo’s lack of experience.

According to Bryan, his son believes he is considerably more prepared than his father thinks he is.

“He’s very frustrated right now because he thinks he knows how to drive, but he has no idea what he’s doing,” Bryan explained.

Bo does at least have some experience operating vehicles — just not necessarily the kind that convinces his dad he is ready for the road.

“He thinks because he can operate a 4-wheeler or Polaris that he is quite proficient,” Bryan continued, “but he is not, I assure you.”

For the country singer, it appears teaching a teenager to drive has introduced an entirely new challenge to fatherhood.

Luke Bryan and Caroline are raising two teenage sons

Bryan shares Bo and his younger brother, 12-year-old Tatum “Tate” Christopher, with his wife Caroline.

While driving lessons may currently be testing his patience, Bryan has previously spoken warmly about this stage of raising his sons.

As the boys have grown older, he has found himself able to include them in more of his own life and interests.

“As they grow older, it’s easier to let them tag along,” Bryan told PEOPLE in 2021.

He described watching them develop their own personalities while also recognizing parts of himself in them.

“They become little men and they become functional little microcosms of me,” he said. “Their personalities are really different.”

His sons are becoming his ‘buddies’

For Bryan, one of the biggest changes has been the evolving relationship between father and sons.

As Bo and Tate have grown, they have increasingly become companions as well as children he is responsible for raising.

“They become your buddies,” Bryan said.

That does not mean the parenting part disappears.

“They’re still your kids, you still have to do the discipline and you still have to teach them the right and wrongs of life,” he explained, “but they really morph into your buddies.”

It was a stage of fatherhood Bryan described as particularly rewarding.

 

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“I’m certainly in the golden years,” he said. “It’s like the sweet spot of being a dad right now and you can let them tag along.”

Of course, those “golden years” now include sitting in the passenger seat while his oldest learns how to handle a real road.

And judging by Bryan’s assessment of Bo’s current driving skills, the teenager may need considerably more practice before Dad is ready to relax.