Child Car Seat Safety Is a Topic of Life and Death
October 31, 2009 by Steph
Filed under Babies and Toddlers
Child car seat security is a fundamental issue that many parents tend to take for granted. A lot of people imagine that you can just go buy really expensive car seat and buckle it and then that’s fine.From what I’ve learned through experience this just isn’t enough. This was one of those big wake-up calls that made me stand back and take a look at what I could do differently for my kid’s car seat security.
When my daughter turned 12 months old, I straight away turned her car seat to face forward. Since most people do this, and it was the norm, I didn’t really think anything of it and just simply made the change. I really didn’t imagine too much about kid car seat safety because I simply took it for granted.
I just simply made the assumption that because I knew how to put the {babies car seat in facing the rear that it wouldn’t be any big deal to figure out how to put it in facing the front.} Like most men I just figured I didn’t need directions and I could figure it out. Truth be told I guess I should look at them just like many other people who don’t take car seat safety very seriously.
To my dismay and terror, when I looked in the rearview mirror as I was gone around the corner I saw my twelve month old son leaning over into the middle of the seat. This spectacle shook me to my [foundation] and I found myself stopping and taking a closer look at a way to reinstall the baby car seat in the vehicle properly. As soon as I got home I went into the house and found the instruction book so I could double check to make sure that it was installed perfectly.
All it took was one plain little error and it could’ve been catastrophic. Just thinking about what could have been the outcome of this simple blunder of being too lazy to follow the directions right brings a quake down my spine. After this ordeal I was inspired to find out some more on the subject.
This research led to some discoveries about toddler car seat safety that I didn’t know. First of all, the seat should be installed in the middle seat if at all possible. My daughter’s car seat was hooked up in the wrong spot as it was on the back passenger side. Many people might not know this as I didn’t, but children should always be placed in the backseat.
I also discovered that stores like Babies-R-Us offer educational programs about daughter car seat security. Not only this but if you would like them to they also offer to install your child’s car seat for you. This is a great way to make sure that your little one is safe and sound while you are on the road.
Now that you know about child car seat security and the consequence of it, you might be interested in finding a new car seat. If you want to find the best car seats on the market for really great deals, then you need to take a look at Baby Strollers And Car Seats.net
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