So, a recent study by an affiliate of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the Highway Loss Data Institute, finds that laws banning hand-held cell phone use don’t really work. Is that a surprise? I don’t know since I don’t live in a state where hand-held phones are banned, but I’ve often compared the [...]
Since Evenflo was kind enough to send us a complimentary new Symphony 65 child restraint to review, and since Ulrike has already completed a thorough blog review of the similar original Symphony model, I decided to focus on comparing this new Evenflo 3-in-1 to the other popular Evenflo convertible - the Triumph Advance. For the sake of full disclosure – the Triumph was [...]
Here’s a list of concrete reasons why we recommend rear-facing past age 1 and 20 lbs. That old recommendation that many pediatricians still hold onto stresses the bare minimums of when to turn a child forward-facing. Who wants the minimum for their child? It’s best practice to rear-face to the limits of the child’s convertible [...]
The review is coming soon, but I’ll leave you with this nugget until then. A video is worth at least 1,000 words, which is a good thing because I’ve had a bit of writer’s block lately!
The Orbit Baby Infant Seat (and the updated Orbit G2 system) is a unique infant seat that’s less an individual seat than a system. When you buy the infant seat you are also buying the stroller, starting you on the path toward stylish products with a green twist. This is a rear-facing only child restraint for [...]
In the July 2008 edition of SafetyBeltSafe News, there was an article about a woman in Oklahoma who wants all car seats to have occupant identification labels on them. I think this is a great idea! I’ve had make your own labels on my web site since before it became CarSeatSite.com–it just seems obvious to me [...]
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