Has anyone gotten a child to buckle themselves in a car seat poncho?...

emandbri

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Can it be done? Any tips? Elizabeth saw me looking at the car seat poncho site because I ordered one for the 1 year old I'm watching, now Elizabeth wants to wear the poncho again. She wore it until she started preschool and started wearing a fleece jacket instead.

I really don't want to have to buckle her. She is in the middle seat, middle row of my 2004 sienna in a FF radian, 1 year old is behind the driver in a RF MA, other outboard seat is open so it can flip, Benjamin is in the back row outboard in a marathon.

Once a week I have to pick up all 4 kids from school so I can't change where anyone is sitting.

Elizabeth can buckle herself in but claims she now can't do it with her jacket on and I buckle her from the driver's seat.

I'm seriously considering having her buckle herself and putting the poncho on after she is buckled.
 
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Pixels

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DD doesn't do her own crotch buckle but she's been doing her own chest clip for a long time. Over a year, probably close to two years. But she can't/won't do it at all with the poncho on.

I have to buckle her anyway, so it's not that big a deal to me, it's just an extra second. I flip the poncho up, covering her face completely--she thinks it's hilarious--do what I need to do, then put the poncho back down.
 

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