Mami_Kathy
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I've been trying to get DH to understand more about carseat safety like turning our 21 mos son RFcing and my 4 yrs and 4 mos daughter back to a harness, as well as getting newer carseats that suits our needs (which I already started a thread on).
I sent him a long email (also to some friends and family members), explaining him the basics and why do I feel like I do, with a link from someone website from this forum. This is the email I sent (I'll be omitting names and the link):
I need opinions, do you think this can get through him? Anyone has deal with this issue before, any ideas on how to handle it? Do you think this would get through anyone? Is it worded properly? or is any of my info wrong in there?
Thanks in advance!
I sent him a long email (also to some friends and family members), explaining him the basics and why do I feel like I do, with a link from someone website from this forum. This is the email I sent (I'll be omitting names and the link):
(I'll also be sending this to people with small kids)
***, I know you think I'm fanatic and passionate when it comes to safety issues, and yes I'm. But really I've to be, who else is going to vouch for my two precious angel and #3 on the way, I don't take this little things lightly and I never will, no matter how much people thing I'm weird, stupid, crazy or any other name, don't care if I'm not mainstream and people did things different and worked fine for them, I'll always err on the safe side and will do what work for my family. Am I overprotective? You bet I'm am, especially when it come to doing the best possible to protect a life and there's nothing to gain or learn by doing the opposite, know what I mean? I could not live with myself if something is to happen to my kids and I didn't do everything I could and knew to protect them.
This link I got is pretty good, she's a certified child passenger safety technician who I go for questions on safety, on her site she give very good explanations of the whys. I got links for more reputable sources like car-seat.org and with the NHTSA, but she got her thing on one page and very well summarize, plus she got other links for references. So please take the time to read it, it's very important for me and more important your kids.
I'll also send this to important people on my kids life so they can understand where I'm coming from and also because if one day I'm not there and they got my kids they'll know what I expect from them when it comes to our kids safety. The laws on child safety safety differ from state to state, there's maybe a handful of them with respectable laws, the rest just follow the bare minimum, therefore all you're avoiding is a ticket but will still be compromising your child safety. Safety organizations and advocates have been working on changing those laws, but everyone know how the lawmakers are. One example is and the most common one, the 1 yr and 20 lbs to put them forward facing is the bare minimum and the safety organizations are trying to make it to be 2 yrs and to be the bare minimum, and the preferred one to be until baby outgrows a rear facing convertible weight limit or height, the majority of them range from 33-35 lbs then they can go forward facing in a 5 pt. harness until they outgrows the seat, a seat will take you to 60-65 lbs. In Norway the law for rear facing is 4 yrs old, the death rate of infants in car accidents is almost null and other European countries the laws for rear facing range from 2- 4 yrs. No kid under 4 and weighting less than 40 lbs should be in a booster, and even when they meet the bare minimum they ain't mature enough to sit still and properly, especially when they still fall sleep. Kids must be in a booster until they're over 80 lbs and 4' 9'', a regular seat belt won't fit them properly (I've a video that shows what can a regular seat belt can do to their neck in case of an accident, but you guys can use logic and picture that) and putting the shoulder belt behind their back is dangerous and defeat the whole purpose. Kids under 12 should always ride on the back properly restraint. Now let me get off my high horse and hope you guys take the time to check the link below.
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I'm not expecting you to be as fanatic as I'm, I think as long as there one in the family is good, but if something is to happen to me I expect nothing less from you than to attain to the highest standards when it comes to our kids, no the bare minimum Devil Dog!! Knowledge and information is there, just seek for it, don't assume you know everything because that's what everyone else is doing, learn for yourself and for your kids. If you really care for our bundles of joy you'll take the few minutes necessary to read this. If you don't at least let me be the one that choose for safety reasons.
Bottom line, *** is going rear facing and *** back to a harness, I'm tire of shooing her a** because she keep moving the belts or moving too much trying to reach for her brother and falling sleep in such an awkward and unsafe position, and that belt almost to her neck is very nerve-wrecking. I've too much knowledge on the subject to be ignoring all of this and playing clueless, sorry I just can do it!
Te amo mucho!!
For the rest, love you all! Hope you take the time to read this.
I need opinions, do you think this can get through him? Anyone has deal with this issue before, any ideas on how to handle it? Do you think this would get through anyone? Is it worded properly? or is any of my info wrong in there?
Thanks in advance!