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But I have to wonder. People see my 5 year old in a booster, see these recs and wonder why as a tech Im not following best practice. It could get sticky
Hasn't your dd grown too tall for the nautilus? 'm sure the recommendations allow for the child to outgrow the seat before age 7. Sure, you could by a frontier 85, but the recommendations are not "to max out the biggest car seat on the market". If anyone questions you, it's to age 7 or till the seat is outgrown.
Hasn't your dd grown too tall for the nautilus? 'm sure the recommendations allow for the child to outgrow the seat before age 7. Sure, you could by a frontier 85, but the recommendations are not "to max out the biggest car seat on the market". If anyone questions you, it's to age 7 or till the seat is outgrown.
Did I miss something I thought it said to harness as long as possible I didnt see age 7 any where.
I agree that the intent is probably aimed more toward seats with 40# harness weight limits (when they say "as long as possible").
My concern is that there are lots of people who already don't know (or care) when their seat is outgrown, and hearing this recommendation might unintentionally encourage them to keep their child harnessed to a certain age regardless of whether or not the child fits in the seat. If a kid outgrows their cosco highback booster harness at age 3 (which is totally reasonable), then the parent might be more apt to keep him/her in the harness even when it's outgrown. (Whether that is better or worse than moving a 3 year old to the poorly-fitting booster option of the cosco highback, I'm not honestly sure!)
Anyway, I *hope* that the new recommendations help to keep more kids safer, and I think that will be the end result, despite the "issues" that I/we can find with them.
Again, I think we need to consider the audience. I don't think the AAP is talking to us here. I don't think the recommendation is to buy Frontier85s for school-age kids. I think it's to keep the kids in their 40# seats instead of switching them to boosters at age 3.
:soapbox again: Those of us who are techs and who work seatchecks, especially in less privileged/educated areas, understand that most of this stuff on the board isn't even in most people's minds. Harnessing "as long as possible" in most of the seats that most people have (ComfortSport, Scenera, Cosco HBB) isn't really best practice, but it's a reasonable, responsible recommendation. The AAP isn't addressing car-seat.org carseat geeks. They're addressing the general public who thinks that if 3y/30# is okay for a backless booster, then 2y/25# is probably close enough and the 9mo needs the Cosco HBB anyhow.
I'm probably the only one, but some of the booster crash tests make me worry. Are there statistics that Sweden has that would make me feel better?
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