And the arguments for/against it?
My children are both very average size and young so I haven't gotten to a point where it is a decision for me to make yet. But I have a friend who has a newly 4 year old (March) that is even with the top slots in the Nautilus. When this happened she started booster training. He is a well behaved child who takes it seriously. She was planning on leaving her Regent in her car until she saw how well he was doing with the booster training. Now she has moved to boostering full time. After reading some things she has come to the decision that she thinks that boostering is SAFER than a 5 point harness due to neck strain. Her 3 year old is RFing and I think she wants to try to go straight from RFing to boostering with her if the maturity is there. I don't intend on harnessing until 10 or anything, but I was planning on getting a Frontier 85 so that DS could stay harnessed until at least 6.
I know that the RFing to boostering is the way they do it in Sweden, so it interests me. I know that most of the arguments are mostly opinion, but I wanted to see if there are any studies at all or at least get most of the varying opinions in one thread.
Thanks!
My children are both very average size and young so I haven't gotten to a point where it is a decision for me to make yet. But I have a friend who has a newly 4 year old (March) that is even with the top slots in the Nautilus. When this happened she started booster training. He is a well behaved child who takes it seriously. She was planning on leaving her Regent in her car until she saw how well he was doing with the booster training. Now she has moved to boostering full time. After reading some things she has come to the decision that she thinks that boostering is SAFER than a 5 point harness due to neck strain. Her 3 year old is RFing and I think she wants to try to go straight from RFing to boostering with her if the maturity is there. I don't intend on harnessing until 10 or anything, but I was planning on getting a Frontier 85 so that DS could stay harnessed until at least 6.
I know that the RFing to boostering is the way they do it in Sweden, so it interests me. I know that most of the arguments are mostly opinion, but I wanted to see if there are any studies at all or at least get most of the varying opinions in one thread.
Thanks!