please tell me he's safe ff!!!

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laudymama

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• Sep 18, 2013

• #1

Please tell me that the first ride ds takes as a ff is not going to involve an accident! I just have all these visions and horrible thoughts like the pic I just took of him in his new seat will be the last one, etc. I know it's crazy but I can't be the only one here who's had these thoughts, right?? Ugh. He's 41 in and 38.5 lbs at 3 yrs 11 mo and right at 1.5 in from the top of the xtsl. He still has room in the head wise in grandma's car but is so close to the weight limit we're obviously not going to buy one for our car and she needs a seat for him in hers anyway. We're doing the right thing, right? He's safe? I was even looking up growth charts and head size, etc. He is right on with a 5 yr old according to the head size charts I found in relation to percentage of your overall size. I just need reassurance It doesn't help that we're taking a road trip for Thanksgiving either

 

monica-m

CPST Instructor

• Sep 18, 2013

• #2

I have the exact same anxiety about DS riding FF. 3 year olds are VERY safe in properly installed, properly used, tethered seats.

Just repeat that over and over in your head. That's what I'm doing as I prepare to install DS' ProSport in DH's car as 3.5 rapidly approaches.

 

tiggercat

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• Sep 18, 2013

• #3

You're exactly where I was a month ago, same size and age kiddo, too! It will get better. It doesn't look so scary now to see him FF, though it is noisier in the van, lol.
At 4yo and outgrowing one of the biggest seats on the market RF, he is perfectly safe turning FF.

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amyd

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• Sep 18, 2013

• #4

On yes, he's just fine. I had to turn my monster-sized 2 yo this past summer. Now that one's scary, let me tell you. I'm slowly getting used to it and he's 2.5 now so I'm starting to feel a bit better about it. Still don't like it and he's a backseat driver to boot!

 

tiggercat

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• Sep 18, 2013

• #5

amyd said:

On yes, he's just fine. I had to turn my monster-sized 2 yo this past summer. Now that one's scary, let me tell you. I'm slowly getting used to it and he's 2.5 now so I'm starting to feel a bit better about it. Still don't like it and he's a backseat driver to boot!

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Doesn't that drive you crazy? Sam even insists on sitting on the passenger side capt chair, so he can "see what you are doing, mum".

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amyd

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• Sep 18, 2013

• #6

tiggercat said:

Doesn't that drive you crazy? Sam even insists on sitting on the passenger side capt chair, so he can "see what you are doing, mum".

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Yes! He asks me every friggin time what a green light means and then insists that it means stop...LOL. Asks where we're going, what I'm doing when I so much as touch the gear shift, etc. And thinks he has total authority over the radio too...it better be Thomas the Tank Engine songs, not CBC. And if I sing, he yells at me to stop.

 

katymyers

Active member

• Sep 18, 2013

• #7

Hunter is a horrid back seat driver, him being ff is twice the nightmare Levi was at first. He tells me to go faster, slow down, to stop, to go, where he want me to turn, and so on.

 

tiggercat

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• Sep 18, 2013

• #8

amyd said:

Yes! He asks me every friggin time what a green light means and then insists that it means stop...LOL. Asks where we're going, what I'm doing when I so much as touch the gear shift, etc. And thinks he has total authority over the radio too...it better be Thomas the Tank Engine songs, not CBC. And if I sing, he yells at me to stop.

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I am so glad it's not just me/my kid! He always expects me to go when the light turns green even if there are cars in my way, i swear i've explained that i can't move until there is space 6 billion times... Though Sam's musical tastes include Katy Perry and Icona Pop, hehe.

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babyherder

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• Sep 18, 2013

• #9

I have my four year old nanny girl rf now after ff for a few weeks. At least the backseat driving is quieter this way! Yesterday she told me to stop for "a pretend red light"

 

Brianna

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• Sep 18, 2013

• #10

I wouldn't bat an eye at a child one month short of their 4th birthday FF. J turned FF with me on his 3rd birthday because he outgrew his EFTA RF by height. Around a month later he hit 40 pounds and I wasn't about to buy a radian for him. I felt perfectly fine about him FF buckled in properly to a properly installed seat.

 

farrbabies

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• Sep 19, 2013

• #11

My son puts his arms up and squeals wheee like he's riding a roller coaster.

 

MotoMommaNH

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• Sep 19, 2013

• #12

amyd said:

And if I sing, he yells at me to stop.

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I'm glad this isn't just my DS!! He screams "No, don't sing songs Mama!!!" LOL

I also have a big one who turned at 2.5. I was such a wreck for like two months and tried to figure out 100 ways from Sunday how I could afford a Foonf. LOL. He's over 3 now so I feel a little better.

 

Kobain's Mommy

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• Sep 19, 2013

• #13

I was that way when DS was teatering around 40lbs just before his 3rd birthday. I am glad I flipped him because the accident we were in he had glass from the window all around him. If he had been rfing it would have been all on or in him.

 

cookie123

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• Sep 21, 2013

• #14

I think what ever age you ff, there's a period of adjustment! I felt the same way when Matthew ff'd at 3.5 He kept monitoring my speed for a while there. Was that ever annoying.