(It might appear the headrest is too low but i can assure you its only the angle which the picture was taken)
It was on a 2 hour drive from college with a close friend from grade school to see her aunt and cousins that I became a car seat fanatic. We were driving along Route 9 in Maine otherwise known as the Airline Road, a road in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by trees, a lack of cellphone coverage and dirt shoulders you didn’t want to get caught up in an over sized lifted truck. I was letting my friend drive for reasons unknown to me because she is by far the worst driver I’ve ever met….i swear she was in like 5 car accidents alone in high school. We were driving along doing what college girls do, talking about men, the classes we were taking, the roommate’s we couldn’t stand and i of course was holding onto the “oh shit” handle for dear life and praying we would get there soon. We rounded a corner and came to a dead stop, cars were stopped on both sides of the road and people were all over. We quickly learned that a car carrying a family had crashed off the thirty foot drop off directly to the right of us. They had driven through trees, bushes and dirt and the car was now sitting at the bottom of the embankment. Somehow the whole family managed to climb out of the car an off duty EMT was keeping an eye on them until an ambulance could arrive forty-five minutes later. While waiting we learned that there had been a baby in the car just a few weeks old and that the baby had flown out of its car seat. I was stunned and wondered how a baby came out of its car seat, how it was even possible?! The obvious reason now is misuse but back then i didn’t know a lot about car seats.
After I had my own son I always thought back to the accident and how things could have been so much worse for that family and how easy it would be to protect my own son. I educated myself. There are so many things that we can’t protect our children from but in the event of a car accident keeping them properly secured in a car seat is one thing that we can do. That’s why I’ve always made sure that the car seat was properly restrained where its supposed to be, that the straps are where they are supposed to be, that nothing is lose or twisted.
Ive had friends who moved their kids into booster seats before the age of three because well the doctor told them it was okay. I’m sorry but a pediatrician really doesn’t know as much about car seat safety as some might think. I’ve had friends who had their young children in booster seats while allowing them to sit on pillows so the kids could see out the window or on their knees. Ugh. I’ll admit that in my head I’ve secretly judged these people and sometimes not so secretly. I’ve been known to go up to strangers in the wal mart parking and lecture them for not having their kids properly restrained. Day after day when I picked my son up from school I would toddlers climb in and out of their parents cars and not one of them was in a car seat or even a booster seat. I can’t even explain how much this irritated me.
My son just turned five and I can PROUDLY say that he is still in a five point harnessed car seat, either a Nautilus or Sunshine Kids and that I plan on keeping him there until he out grows them according to the manual and only then will his smart little butt be getting into a booster seat.
I’m by no means saying that I am super mom or deserve a medal or that I am better then other parents or that other people don’t care about their kids. I’m saying that I made a choice and maybe if i hadn’t come across that accident I wouldn’t feel the same way but I do and I’m proud of the choice that I’ve made.
Some Great Websites About Car Seat Safety:
How old was your son or daughter when they stopped using a car seat?
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