In the world of car seats, technicians need to know the names of the car seats with which they’re dealing. We need to be able to identify seats so we can look them up on recall lists and to write them down on checklists for liability reasons. It’s important to our jobs. And sanity.
I’ve decided to document how various combination (harness/booster) seats fit my 4-year-old, 41 lb, 43″ tall son in booster mode. He’s at the size where most parents would be switching from the 5-pt harness to the vehicle’s lap/shoulder belt in booster mode if they had a combination seat with a 40 lb limit on the harness. In each case I’ll use [...]
Sunshine Kids Monterey: A Versatile Booster
Vehicle seat belts are designed to fit an average 160 lbs. man, not your average 4-10 year old child. That’s why we have booster seats. A booster seat raises the child up so that the lap portion of the lap/shoulder belt falls across the bony hips, not the soft, easily [...]
As it turns out, Child Passenger Safety is a pretty narrow topic for a blog. It’s hard to be creative and come up with a new topic every day that isn’t a rehash of an old one. So, we occasionally mix in parenting issues, other child related products (especially if someone sends us one for [...]
I had an interesting experience recently and I just have to share. I had a (non-CPS) meeting to go to and I was carpooling with a friend and her friend. The other friend (someone I don’t know) offered to pick me up from a prearranged location about 20 minutes from my house and drive me the rest of [...]
I became interested in child passenger safety when my oldest son was starting to outgrow his Century Smart Fit infant seat, or maybe it was just to heavy to carry him in the baby bucket. That was 10 years ago, in early 1999. I originally bought a Century Smart Move and could not get it installed rear-facing [...]
I’ve decided to document how various combination (harness/booster) seats fit my 4-year-old, 41 lb, 43″ tall son in booster mode. He’s at the size where most parents would be switching from the 5-pt harness to the vehicle’s lap/shoulder belt in booster mode if they had a combination seat with a 40 lb limit on the harness. In each case I’ll use [...]
Just some filler material for today. First up, some important links for parents to know when it comes to checking their child car seat for recalls. A few lists exist, but all have the same information presented in different ways. Here’s the tome of all recalls from the NHTSA:
http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/recalls/childseat.cfm
Here’s a nice one from SafetyBeltSafe USA [...]
One of my jobs is to read car seat owner’s manuals. All child passenger safety technicians should crack open a manual at some point; in fact, they should look at a manual every time they install a car seat. No one’s that good, lol. Car seat manufacturers issue revisions and updates to manuals on a [...]
It’s time to announce the 2009 CB-CASAs! (Carseat Blog Chicago Auto Show Awards). Without Further Ado:
