Thanksgiving_Twins_Mom
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was flipping through the latest magazine from Multiples of America, the national parents of multiples club, and nearly lost my lunch when I saw the photo they have accompanying an article on car safety.
I've started composing a letter and would like input from the collective CSO brain because my DDs are 13YO and I haven't been keeping up to date on car seats. This is what I have so far:
Dear Multiples of America Notebook staff:
Thank you for the informative article "How to Make Sure Your Child is Safe in the Car". I am concerned, though, that if "A picture is worth a thousand words", that the photo accompanying the article contradicts some points of the text.
1. The article correctly recommends keeping one's child rear-facing "as long as possible" for better protection of the child's head, neck, and spine. But the child in the photo is forward facing and looks to be younger than 2. (Please note also that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends keeping children rear-facing "until they are two years old or until they have reached the weight and height limits of their car seat." and that the rear-facing weight and height limits of many readily available car seats are high enough so that parents can keep a typical child rear-facing beyond 2 years.)
2. The article correctly reminds parents to make sure that the harness is "buckled and coming from the correct harness slots" yet the harness in the photo is coming from slots that appear to be at least two inches above the child's shoulders.
I also wanted to comment that the article correctly state that "the chest clip should be placed at armpit level and all slack removed from the harness" but there's *no* chest clip in the photo - but before I did that, I just wanted to check if the seat in the photo is one that can correctly be used without a chest clip (never heard of such a thing but like I said, I haven't been keeping up on the latest and greatest in car seats)
TIA!
I've started composing a letter and would like input from the collective CSO brain because my DDs are 13YO and I haven't been keeping up to date on car seats. This is what I have so far:
Dear Multiples of America Notebook staff:
Thank you for the informative article "How to Make Sure Your Child is Safe in the Car". I am concerned, though, that if "A picture is worth a thousand words", that the photo accompanying the article contradicts some points of the text.
1. The article correctly recommends keeping one's child rear-facing "as long as possible" for better protection of the child's head, neck, and spine. But the child in the photo is forward facing and looks to be younger than 2. (Please note also that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends keeping children rear-facing "until they are two years old or until they have reached the weight and height limits of their car seat." and that the rear-facing weight and height limits of many readily available car seats are high enough so that parents can keep a typical child rear-facing beyond 2 years.)
2. The article correctly reminds parents to make sure that the harness is "buckled and coming from the correct harness slots" yet the harness in the photo is coming from slots that appear to be at least two inches above the child's shoulders.
I also wanted to comment that the article correctly state that "the chest clip should be placed at armpit level and all slack removed from the harness" but there's *no* chest clip in the photo - but before I did that, I just wanted to check if the seat in the photo is one that can correctly be used without a chest clip (never heard of such a thing but like I said, I haven't been keeping up on the latest and greatest in car seats)
TIA!