For a long time, Child Passenger Safety Techs were told not to recommend specific seats. They are all safe and pass federal standards, or so said the official training manual. Most techs dutifully passed this stale company line along to parents. Fortunately, that all ended when the NHTSA itself started rating seats a number of years ago. At last, official proof [...]
My 3-year old is going to preschool. Two days a week. Two hours a day. Our other two kids went to preschool. Fill out a registration form, write a check. Send ‘em off. Simple. Right? Nope. I have a virtual mountain of paperwork. So much, in fact, the packet included a handy checklist to make [...]
Yesterday many of the frequent visitors to the car-seat.org forums received a tasty little treat - a sneak peek at a new child restraint from Evenflo that is expected to debut at the ABC industry trade show in September. Here’s what we think we know – the Evenflo Symphony will be a 3-in-1 seat like to the ones [...]
So, what do you do with a car seat or booster you no longer need? That’s a big question that lots of folks ask themselves every day and usually the answer is to stick the seat next to the trash can on the curb. The problem with that fix is that there are other folks [...]
People get funny when they get into a car or even think about cars. Common sense? Mild manners? Out the door. In the USA at least, the moment they touch the wheel, people get irrational and some drivers even get a sense of entitlement, superiority and immortality. Some even seem to think their anti-social car behavior is protected by a [...]
As I was driving my children to the haircut place Wednesday morning on our city’s equivalent of the German Autobahn, I was pondering reaction times, thinking about how they diminish as we age (actually, I was smugly thinking about how quickly I was able to go from the brake to the gas as the light [...]
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