Tagged: Car Seat Safety

  The weather is starting to break (please don’t hold me to that promise) and now is the time when lots of parents start taking a good hard look at the back seats of their cars, wondering how everything got this bad.  Car seats tend to hoard things like road...

  We’ve been using the Chicco MyFit for a few months now, and since installed it quite a few in different vehicles, so I thought it’d be the perfect time to review. I want to note that this car seat was not provided to me by Chicco or Metro Detroit Mommy. ...

  Sitting in the front seat of the car is often viewed as a rite of passage.  It feels like a very adult thing to do, and there’s so much freedom inherent in the seating position: you can see the entire road and you can reach the radio!  What’s not...

A friend of mine and fellow CPST was involved in a major crash a month ago.  She was driving to the airport with two other adults in the car as well as her 9-year-old son when blizzard conditions caused a crash in front of them.  What happened next was unavoidable;...

  Do you have an expired or outgrown car seat laying around? What about a car seat that’s been in a crash? How about a car seat whose last days were so gross you’d rather not discuss it? Well I’ve got great news for you:  Target is bringing back its...

    One of the hottest pieces of news in the Child Passenger Safety world dropped this week: the American Academy of Pediatrics has changed their recommendation guidelines for rearfacing children.  They’ve also added a new guideline, aimed at keeping older kids and teens safe.  So what changed and what...

To start: I like to begin from the child’s bottom and move up, but as long as all these steps are fulfilled whichever order you choose is just fine. 1) Place the baby in the seat and buckle the crotch buckle over the hips. 2) The shoulder straps belong over...