I’m PADI certified, Rescue Diver. The only advice i can give it’s really the instructor that makes the difference. I’ve had a few different ones with the levels i have gone through. There was one instructor that i did not care for and asked dive shop classes with that particular instructor were not scheduled for me. I would observe an instructor at a discover scuba course and see if you think she will get along with them and how they teach the class. The right person will excite your new diver, the wrong one not. Good luck.