Yahoo Lifestyle Maci Bookout Says She Wants to ‘Crawl in a Hole’ as Bentley Gets His License: 'Going to Be Worried All the Time'
The mom of three is coming to terms with her oldest child becoming a licensed driver
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Maci and BentleyMaci Bookout McKinney has a driver on her hands.
After gifting son Bentley a car for his 16th birthday, the new driver got his driver's license in the latest episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.
Maci and husband Taylor McKinney drive away together as Bentley heads to school on his own for the first time.
"I feel like we've done so much to mold him into the young man that he is, and now that we're letting him drive it's like, 'Did we do enough?' " Taylor says.
"Yeah. Like, I'm so excited for him and then literally I want to crawl into a hole," the mom of three admits.
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Later, Maci sits down with Bentley to talk about what this new responsibility means.
"Alright, with a license, this is a lot of freedom, but a lot of responsibility. Never, ever, ever drive if you're not up to driving — if you're tired or you just mentally or physically, you just don't want to, don't feel like you have to do it. It's not going to be an issue. We will drop whatever and come get you," she says.
The mom also reminds him to make sure passengers are wearing their seatbelts and behaving themselves.
"I don't really want Jayde and Mav in the car with you," she says of Bentley's younger siblings. "You need more experience before even you would be comfortable with a bunch of people, especially little kids in your car. So communication, trust, and it goes both ways. Remember this is a huge responsibility but it's going to be awesome. Don't take advantage of it. It can be taken away."
In a confessional, Maci explains, "I'm genuinely not a worrier. What's gong to happen is going to happen. What's mean to be will be... until my oldest son got his driver's license. Now I feel like I'm going to be worried all the time. Maybe after a couple of weeks it'll settle down, but it's the very beginning."
The reality star shares Bentley with ex Ryan Edwards. In addition to Bentley, Ryan is also dad to son Jagger, 10, and daughter Stella, 5, with ex MacKenzie Standifer, and newborn daughter Presley with fiancée Amanda Conner.
Teen Mom: The Next Chapter airs on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on MTV.
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