Two questions

The Safe Embraces were good for eight years, right? I saw one on a friend's front porch today. I saw it was an FP, but without absolutely digging around and being vaguely rude and decidedly weird, I didn't get a model name. I asked the dad, but he said it was a carseat, that was all he knew. So I looked it up this evening and sure enough it's a Safe Embrace. It looked to be in FABULOUS condition. But even if it was one of the first ones in 1998, it would have just expired a few months ago, right? I just want to double check that. They weren't using it today for whatever reason, but I want to point out to them that they may need to check. I don't know where they got the seat, their oldest is Piper's age, so I don't know where a 6+ year old seat came from.

Second question. Why do you have to remove the harness of a combination seat when you use it as a booster? If you're not using the harness then you can just sit on it, right? As long as it's not uncomfortable. Or is there a safety reason? I saw one seat like this the other day, where maybe they were using both, I don't know, and then again this afternoon one of the moms has her son, also Piper's age, in a booster in the middle of her Volvo and his harness is still on the seat. He doesn't use it, just the belt, but I saw the harness was there.

Wendy

wendytthomas said:

he said it was a carseat, that was all he knew

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Wendy, I almost fell off my chair -- too funny!

No definite answer for you other than to just follow the manual about the harness

I think someone asked this question in our CPS course. The instructors said they usually recommend removing it only so it doesn't get used past the weight limit - more as an added measure that someone who doesn't know any better might stick the child in the harness someday.

The old Fisher Price seats (Safe EMBRACE series, not Safe VOYAGE series; and the Stay-in-View and Futura) were good for 8 years, and were discontinued in 2001, so some may be good for another couple of years.

AdventureMom said:

I think someone asked this question in our CPS course. The instructors said they usually recommend removing it only so it doesn't get used past the weight limit - more as an added measure that someone who doesn't know any better might stick the child in the harness someday.

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that would be my first thought... someone might think the harness should be used when in fact it shouldn't.

I have seen this too. I think they do it so that two kids can share the seat? Makes sense if you know what you are doing but I'd think it would be uncomfortable for the booster mode user!
C.