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

On Thursday’s all-new Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, Maci Bookout leads her son, Bentley, by means of 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 regulation 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 mother and father, your mother and father or Jen and Larry,” Maci tells husband Taylor McKinney, earlier than sharing her considerations about Bentley driving along with his dad, Ryan Edwards. “There’s a whole lot of issues which have gone on with Ryan within the final yr.”

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

“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 somewhat observe underneath his belt, then I feel that is only a dialog we have now 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 best way issues are going, their complete, massive and blended household may be part of this main milestone for Bentley, so long as they’re on the “similar web page.”

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

“I assume you might 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 mother and father. “Not less than Bentley’s bought an ideal instance of what to not do.”

Later within the episode, Maci takes Bentley to an empty car parking zone to observe his driving and even makes an attempt to show the teenager easy methods 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 practically nail the parking job, getting a “not horrible” from his mother.

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

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