Except your method went from turning the steering wheel one way to the other with no straight segment in between.
Hell no, I was a horrible parker at first.
You didn’t read the second sentence in my post. Here it is again
Using my method, the student may wind up parallel to the curb but too far away. (which I delt with later in the same post) Learning via your method the student will probably hit the curb with their right rear tire before they get their car parallel to the curb.
you said yourself that you were horrible at parking when you first started. I have no reason to believe that the OP will be any better when they start. First they need to learn how to get into the space. Then they can practice on getting close to the curb.
Having good spatial awareness of the dimensions of your car will make learning to parallel park a lot easy.
Find yourself an empty carpark/parking lot.
Choose a parking bay and drive your car in, trying to stop with your front bumper just on the front white line.
Get out of your car and see where you have actually parked. Chances are the bumper will be quite far away from the line.
Keep practicing until you can get the bumper just on the front white line. You now know where the front of your car is.
Do the same by reversing in, trying to get your rear bumper just on the white line. Rinse, repeat.
Enough technique has been posted here that I won’t add to it other than to say forget about turning the wheel to full lock. This isn’t to say it’s necessarily a bad thing to do, but if you have to do it then you’re parking in a spot that’s too tight for a novice to try.
Anyway, whatever technique you decide upon, my advice is this: PRACTICE VISUALISING WHERE YOUR WHEELS ARE, AND WHICH WAY THEY ARE POINTING (both front and rear wheels). Remember that the steering wheel doesn’t turn the car left or right - it turns the front wheels left or right. Keep picturing those wheels in your mind as you go through the procedure. This will especially help in the reversing stage.
I haven’t read everything–so this may be redundant. BUt I wanted to drop in and offer an encouraging word. And a “how I did it.”
I had never been comfortable backing up (other than straight out of a short driveway or parking space). Then I “inherited” an enormous Ford LTD. It was so big, I was sure it couldn’t even fit in a normal parking space. But (and I’m so proud of this), I learned to parallel park it comfortably.
Step 1: Learn to back up. I mean really learn. This is hard if you are short. Consider a booster pillow. Get boxes, find a parking lot. Try to back up until you touch the boxes. Get out of the car and look at how far you’ve gone. I was amazed at how many feet I’d left between me and the box. Run over some of the boxes. When you can back up with total confidence, move to Step 2.
Step 2. Get a little toy car with “turnable” wheels and practice with the little car. Practice until you really understand how the wheels go and how the car goes.
Step 3. Get new boxes 
and set up a pretend car along a pretend curb and practice in the parking lot until you can do it. I had to get out of the car a LOT to see where I was. It helps to have a friend along who will hold up a tape measure, but you can do it alone.
Step 4. Practice with a real car and a really really big space. Work your way up (down?) to smaller spaces.
Step 5. Learn to do it backwards. You know, like on the left side of the street so when you have to do it on a one-way street you can.
You can do it!!!
Temporal needs-based dilation of longitudinal interstices within linear arrays of automobiles transforms to a rapid expansion of the actual size of your vehicle at the very instant you shift into Reverse.
In Chicago, we called it Lincoln Parking, especially when done by old people in their big Lincolns in the Lincoln PArk neighborhood. 
That was not in your first post, it was in your reply to my post advocating the straight segment in the middle.
That’s because I wasn’t taught the “straight segment” method. I’m not sure why you are so worked up. I didn’t call you or any other poster out, I just suggested what I think is a better way. I don’t think either of us has claim to a unique way to parallel park.
One concept that helped me a lot when learning to parallel park is to simply not fear *tapping * another car (that’s tapping at <1 mph, not denting bumpers, and not ramming).
99.99% of the time, for a novice/unskilled parallel-parker, you’ve got a lot more room than you think to move – the novice mistake is typically to underestimate the room you’ve got. Learn to overcome that – learning your car’s spatial dimensions through trial and error will help tons – and successful parallel parking will follow.
I’m amazed at the consensus developing that hitting another car is OK. While performing this manoeuvere in a driving test here, hitting the kerb would count as a fault, let along another vehicle. That would be a straight fail.
:shrug:
Honestly, if it were my car’s bumper getting hit … I don’t care a whit so long as there’s no denting. I understand that not everyone feels that way, though.
I’ve been rear-ended in bumper-to-bumper traffic – hard enough to jar me (5 to 10 mph) – and not gotten out of my car to check damage. Again, might just be me.
Well … many things that cause failure on a driving test are done routinely out on the roads. Doesn’t make it right, granted.
IMHO, tapping another car shouldn’t be a goal in parallel parking … but at the same time, a fear of tapping another vehicle can cause a novice parker to screw up parallel parking into a well large enough space.