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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 11:44 am
Beware, next is helmets in the cars, too.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 11:45 am
Maybe there is a reason for it in Ohio, rather than other states. I wonder what their reasoning is? Too many small kids getting injured from lack of proper restraints in cars, maybe?
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 11:47 am
Do they even make a 5 point restraint seat for a kid that big? Mine hasn't been in one in forever!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 11:56 am
I've never seen one. My 5 year old is still in a booster, she's 40 pounds, but it makes me feel better. A friend of mine was in a head on collision with her 5 year old, and her five year old was saved because she was in a proper safety seat for her height and weight. Unfortunately, my friend was killed.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 12:10 pm
It is all about whether the seat belt and shoulder belt are passing over the body in the proper position. If a kid is short and overweight it doesn't mean that he or she shouldn't be in a booster seat.
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 12:13 pm
Scooter....here in Ontario there are expiry dates on car seats. Ours is 7 years from date of manufacture. We have the 8yr or 80lbs rule. I believe the 5 point harness until 6 or 8 is excessive. Escapee I totally agree with you that some parents are clueless are car seat rules and safety. My SIL had her 6 month old forward facing in a 3pt harness. I had to tell her it was wrong. Then at 1yr 2months I happened to be in her vehicle and reached back to check out the seat and it was only tethered but not fastened with a belt. Ahhhh....
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 12:32 pm
Shhh Spitfire! When baby niece was born (in Sept) I drove them home from the hospital cuz sis didn't have a/c in her car, with bil following behind us. Nurse wheeled sis and the baby out, me and bil pulled our cars up, he hopped out and took the infant carrier out of their car and put it in mine. Nurse came over and checked it out and said ok, sis put the baby in, and I threw their bags in the trunk of the car. Only when we got to the house did we realize that bil had only tethered the car seat in and not fastened and worse, he didn't notice, the nurse didn't notice (and she was checking the damn thing,) and sis didn't notice! I claim innocence cuz I was at the back of the car, lol. Both of my kidlets were forward facing earlier than a year, geez I think Caleb was about 9 months old, Dakota only a little older cuz they were too tall. Caleb was so long that his knees were almost to his chest! And like Rissa's kidlet, he was out of boosters pretty early cuz he was so tall. Dakota was in the booster a year or so longer until she exceeded the weight limit and was getting a bit too tall for it. My nieces on the other hand, oldest has only been out of the booster a year or so (and she's 9 and a half!) and the middle one at 5 looks like she has another few years to go with it. Both girls are pretty small.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 1:37 pm
Lilly and Emma both were front facing before a year because they didn't fit rear facing, either.
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 1:46 pm
my son is going to be 3 in april and already 40lbs!! We turned D around before a year - he was a crier and for some reason he calmed down Foward facing. Now I will need another seat when #2 comes along and I am wondering if I should get a new seat for the older child or the younger one!
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 1:48 pm
Here it's illegal to turn before a year. She was far from being to big at 6 months old.
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 1:48 pm
Here it's illegal to turn before a year. She was far from being to big at 6 months old.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 2:08 pm
It's nice to see that all of Jon and Kate's children seem to be properly restrained when they are being transported from place to place. 
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 2:11 pm
Geez, I have seen people get into a car with a baby and not even have a car seat. I was shocked. And it was because there were six adults in a six passenger car.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 7:54 pm
Ah.. well I never watched The Brady Bunch, so that figures I wouldn't recognize that reference.. but I do get "jumped the shark" yet never saw the show that referenced either.. As for puppies, well it can be a good thing and if they came from a shelter, that is two pups who I'm sure would vote to be adopted instead of gassed. (or two others who may have gotten homes because these two went home with Kate).
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 8:13 pm
Oh I so hope they did get them from a shelter!! (And in turn maybe a few viewers then also adopt from a shelter...) (And I don't think I ever knew anyone who never watched the Brady Bunch!!)
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 11:23 pm
That show apparently ran from 1969 to 1974 .. I was just starting my job after graduating, we had one car and lived way out so time was spent driving me to work, husband to school and back, both of us to dog shows.. we were extremely involved with the dogs and with the lab club, on the board, I had the newsletter, lots of reading. We simply didn't watch great amounts of tv and not sitcoms or whatever, I guess. Didn't even get great reception where we lived and just had a b/w tv. I probably never watched lots of shows.. to this day.
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Surfgirl
Member
10-11-2003
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 12:44 am
Ok.. on the booster seat for eight year olds. My son just turned eight when we heard about this maybe becoming a law in Texas. He is a big kid, he will turn 13 on Sunday and is 5'11,, when he was 8 he was all ready 5 foot tall. Anyways.. his reaction to the booster seat cracked me up he said "I am 8 and I am tall for my age so what about the little old people who can barely see above the steering wheel do they need booster seats to?"
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 2:26 am
LOL.. well before the days of adjustible steering wheels and seats, us short people just sat on a cushion when driving.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 6:26 am
Sometimes it's not about how big/tall a child is. In my car there's passenger side airbags up front. It says nobody under the age of 13 should sit there. When one of my bonus daughters was 10, she was already 3 inches taller than my 14 year old bonus daughter. Asked if she could sit up front, I said no. So when she went with her dad she asked if she could sit up front since she was already taller than J. He said yes. Boy howdy did he get it when he got home as I had just told him before we picked up the kids that I had looked online and found out it was about bone development, not how tall a person was.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 8:02 am
The focus on booster seats, carseats, restraints, helmets, airbags, etc. is all about saving the life of a child if the car the child is riding was to get into an auto accident. I'm all for saving the life of a child, whatever it will take.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 8:04 am
When my first two were babies they were just laid on the seat...no one had ever heard of seatbelts. They came into fashion when my oldest daughter was 3...but it was still years away from safety seats for kids. When my youngest daughter, now 36, was a baby they were just coming into their own. She had one that was fairly well padded, but by todays standards probably would not have been very helpful in a crash. When I think of how my first two kids could have been ambulance fodder, I shudder.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 8:43 am
My dh's gramma told me when she had her kids, and she drove, they'd often roll off the seat! I don't know why but to picture that cracks me up!! She said people would drive with babies on their laps as a way to keep them safe. If she had a baby and a toddler, the toddler was the one who always rolled off at stops.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 8:45 am
I am also for doing what it takes to be safe. But the reality and logistics of having 5 point restraints for bigger kids... that one I have a hard time with.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 9:12 am
I'm with you, Julieboo. These kids will be smoking and texting away on their cell phones, but still be in a carseat, lol!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, February 20, 2009 - 9:17 am
LOL HUKD!!!
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