Maci Bookout’s Son Will get Learner’s Allow — However She Would not Need Him Driving with Ex Ryan Edwards

On Thursday’s all-new Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, Maci Bookout leads her son, Bentley, via one other main milestone — driving.

Whereas involved in regards to the 15-year-old after getting his learner’s allow, Maci additionally needs to set some floor guidelines for the teenager as he prepares to get behind the wheel — like abiding by the legislation that Bentley can solely drive if a licensed driver over the age of 21 is within the passenger seat subsequent to him.

“I am nonetheless simply solely snug with Bentley driving with me otherwise you or my dad and mom, your dad and mom or Jen and Larry,” Maci tells husband Taylor McKinney, earlier than sharing her considerations about Bentley driving together with his dad, Ryan Edwards. “There’s loads of issues which have gone on with Ryan within the final 12 months.”

Regardless of claiming to be sober and rehabilitating his life, Ryan was placed on a restricted license for a full 12 months after getting a DUI final 12 months.

“I feel Ryan’s doing good in his restoration,” Taylor says. “However I really feel like there’s nonetheless some proving he has to do earlier than we’ll let Bentley drive a automobile if Ryan is the licensed driver with him.”

“After Bentley will get a bit follow beneath his belt, then I feel that is only a dialog we now have with Bentley and Ryan, simply to ensure we’re all on the identical web page about what the principles are,” she provides.

Maci is hopeful that with the way in which issues are going, their complete, large and blended household may be part of this main milestone for Bentley, so long as they’re on the “identical web page.”

Nonetheless, Maci discovered some irony in the truth that each Ryan and Bentley could be on a restricted license on the identical time.

“I suppose you could possibly say some poetic justice is being served proper now with Ryan having a restricted license whereas Bentley is getting a restricted license,” Maci tells the cameras after attending Bentley’s baseball sport with Ryan, his new girlfriend and Ryan’s dad and mom. “At the very least Bentley’s acquired an ideal instance of what to not do.”

Later within the episode, Maci takes Bentley to an empty parking zone to follow his driving and even makes an attempt to show the teenager the best way to parallel park.

Whereas he does run over a number of cones Maci introduced together with them to maintain him in line, he was in a position to almost nail the parking job, getting a “not horrible” from his mother.

“You actually need to have religion and belief that you have performed a superb job as a mum or dad however they need to be taught to belief themselves and make choices on their very own, nevertheless it’s completely terrifying,” Maci says in a confessional.

Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter airs Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on MTV.