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bumblewasp
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Just lately I seem to see it everywhere 
The other day I saw a guy with a kid who could not have been more than 3, maybe 3 and a half in the front seat of his car, with the seatbelt practically over his ear The worst part was there was clearly a HBB in the back of the car, just wasn't being used. A couple of days later, my daughter and I were doing a shop and had just loaded up in the pouring rain ( loving this summer weather!) and a woman with a small child came back to the car parked next to ours and allowed him to get in the front seat as he was whining to be allowed to, again there was a seat in the back of the car, but she drove off, in pouring rain, flustered with a whiny kid in the front passenger seat. My daughter (14) was outraged and actually got pretty upset thinking about all the "what ifs" of the situation.
Then the very worst was last weekend, we were on a camping trip and the people on the next pitch to us were leaving, they had 4 kids, the youngest was boostered, another 2 went in the back with the boostered kid, and then Dad climbed in to the drivers seat, Mum got in the passenger seat and their little girl who was about 7 or 8, got a pillow, put pillow in front of Mum ( who had her seatbelt on at this point), and climbed onto mums lap with the pillow behind her, laid her head on the dashboard and off they drove! My heart was in my mouth, I just felt sick
To top it off, was watching TV last night and a car commercial comes on with a yummy mummy type driving with 3 kids in the back seat, all wearing seatbelts, but clearly none of them were 135cm tall, so should all have been boostered. Given that it is now the law to use a seat under 135 cm here, both DH and I got angry at this, how irresponsible of a car manufacturer to show this practice! Am tempted to complain but actually got so cross that I didn't register which car it was! Will have to see if I can catch it again!
It's as if the law is nominal here, the police will stop cars with very young children in Mums arms etc, but over about 3, there doesn't seem to be much implementation of the law, really gets my goat.
Feels good to have a rant though, especially to people who aren't going to say " well, the government just make stuff up to make life difficult, we never had car seats and we were all ok!"
B x
The other day I saw a guy with a kid who could not have been more than 3, maybe 3 and a half in the front seat of his car, with the seatbelt practically over his ear The worst part was there was clearly a HBB in the back of the car, just wasn't being used. A couple of days later, my daughter and I were doing a shop and had just loaded up in the pouring rain ( loving this summer weather!) and a woman with a small child came back to the car parked next to ours and allowed him to get in the front seat as he was whining to be allowed to, again there was a seat in the back of the car, but she drove off, in pouring rain, flustered with a whiny kid in the front passenger seat. My daughter (14) was outraged and actually got pretty upset thinking about all the "what ifs" of the situation.Then the very worst was last weekend, we were on a camping trip and the people on the next pitch to us were leaving, they had 4 kids, the youngest was boostered, another 2 went in the back with the boostered kid, and then Dad climbed in to the drivers seat, Mum got in the passenger seat and their little girl who was about 7 or 8, got a pillow, put pillow in front of Mum ( who had her seatbelt on at this point), and climbed onto mums lap with the pillow behind her, laid her head on the dashboard and off they drove! My heart was in my mouth, I just felt sick
To top it off, was watching TV last night and a car commercial comes on with a yummy mummy type driving with 3 kids in the back seat, all wearing seatbelts, but clearly none of them were 135cm tall, so should all have been boostered. Given that it is now the law to use a seat under 135 cm here, both DH and I got angry at this, how irresponsible of a car manufacturer to show this practice! Am tempted to complain but actually got so cross that I didn't register which car it was! Will have to see if I can catch it again!
It's as if the law is nominal here, the police will stop cars with very young children in Mums arms etc, but over about 3, there doesn't seem to be much implementation of the law, really gets my goat.
Feels good to have a rant though, especially to people who aren't going to say " well, the government just make stuff up to make life difficult, we never had car seats and we were all ok!"
B x
