Black Friday shopping just ain’t my thing. I think I’d rather clean puked-on carseats all day than wake up at 3:30 AM to freeze my butt off outside waiting for stores to open so I could battle with hordes of crazy New Yorkers (and that says a lot because I absolutely loathe cleaning puked-on carseats). I know some [...]
Since today is Thanksgiving Day here in the USA, I thought I’d jot down some things that I’m thankful for. Needless to say, I’m thankful for my two beautiful boys, my wonderful DH, my health and the health of those that I love, my friends, a roof over our head, DH’s paycheck in the bank and no foreclosure sign on [...]
For Guest Wednesday, our pal Matt is back after months of gentle prodding from his dw Heather.
Remember that Gas-X commercial where the line goes, “Your son Rip is on line toot”? It’s a sensitive subject for many of us, but it can be especially sensitive for those of us who install car seats because of, well—isn’t it obvious?—our bums are usually smack in someone’s face as we work and they watch [...]
Marvin is on hiatus from “Ask Marvin”, at least until inspiration strikes. Please feel free to send your ideas or questions to marvin “at” carseatblog “dot” com or send him a PM! Until then, Marvin hopes to continue with some free giveaways.
Hello. My name is Kecia and I have a serious problem. I find it nearly impossible to resist a good deal on anything carseat related. The worst part of this problem is that half of the time I buy things that I don’t actually need. Sometimes I buy things that I don’t even want! My friends are no help whatsoever since they [...]
I participated in a mandatory car seat checkpoint early Wednesday morning. The police pick a part of town where they feel there’s a problem with misuse/nonuse of child restraints, set up a road block, and send every vehicle with a car seat into a parking lot where eager child passenger safety technicians wait to tackle [...]
Marvin missed you all on Monday. So, today, Marvin answers one of hundreds of questions pouring in about Target’s recent fiasco with mispriced Marathons.
“Hi Marv. Did you get one of those $42 Britax Marathons? Please tell us you did and will be giving some away in a contest! Can you believe Target cancelled my order? I [...]
On October 30, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety issued a press release stating that collisions with deer and other animals spike in November. Two days later, on November 1, my sister hit a deer with her car. Fortunately, she and her husband were both wearing their seatbelts, and both came through the crash [...]
We both reside in Orange County, NY and we both care about the children in our local community! This past weekend Orange County Choppers hosted a child safety event at their world headquarters in Newburgh. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to work the carseat check portion of the event. I had no one to watch the kids and the weather was really lousy all [...]
