On your car, the Only bad part is that it is an Automatic transmission.
My wife and I are Very Firm Believers that Every Child should learn to drive a stick shift.
Any one can get into a car, pull the gear shifter into a gear and step on the throttle and go - even a 2 year old can do that!
both my kids learned to drive stick shift before they were old enough to drive.
I taught my daughter-n-law to drive a stick shift (she learned in driver's ed on an automatic).
And guess what she prefers to drive? Stick shift. She just bought a Saturn with a 5 speed stick shift. I don't know what it is about females, but they seem to have a gift to shifting, every female I know of, they shift a stick like it had an automatic in it! Very smooth!
In order to teach the shifting technique you have to first teach clutch control, once they have that down, the rest is all about how long your fingernails are! Or be a grampa - because by then you're not so uptight.