Car safety backpack

At ds's daycare/preschool (all 27 kids are between 2.5 and 5 yrs old) they send home educational/themed backpackes about once a month that you work on with your child beginning on Monday and return on Friday. When his teacher did her homevisit this summer she asked for my feedback on the program and I asked about having one on carseat safety because like most parents on this board I see scary things in the parking lot daily. She thought it was a good idea.

So the backpack he brought home today was the car safety one. It is not perfect as it does not encourage extended harnessing and could do better at stressing ERF, but the materials have the basics. It includes three hand-outs for parents, multiple activity pages for kids, a bag with car safe activities for kids and a book. The book is about a family with three kids who go to a carseat check and learn the importants have carseat safety (ds came home w/that same book last year to keep). The materials are from NHTSA (www.boosterseat.gov).

So hopefully it will encourage parents to properly restrain their youngsters, since kids only have to legally be in seats until age 4 here. Are there any phamplets available that talk about EH and ERF that I could add to the backpack? The center is a mixed-age center and quite diverse for its size.

To the best of my knowledge there really is no such material. The gov't is not at this time invested in that line of thought. They give (IMNSHO) lip service to it withot any real support for the people putting it into place.

what about safety in and around cars? this link talks about leaving your child alone in a car, backing dangers and trunk entrapment.

http://www.usa.safekids.org/skbu/cars/index.html

HTH,
Tracy

Here are some non-government links


updated "Are you using it right" booklet - To get it, go to: http://www.usaaedfoundation.org/
Select the "Order Publications" link at the top of the form.
Select publication "544 - Installing Child Safety Seats"
You can order up to 100 brochures at a time and they are free.

"Rear-facing, Unmatched Safety" http://www.cpsafety.com/PDFfiles/RearFacingBrochure.pdf

"A Parent's Guide to Shield Booster Dangers" http://www.cpsafety.com/PDFfiles/Shi...erBrochure.pdf

"A Parent's Guide to Sheild Car Seat Dangers" http://www.cpsafety.com/PDFfiles/ShieldSeatBrochure.pdf

"Boosters are for big kids" http://www.carseat.org/Boosters/630.pdf

You can also go here: http://www.carseat.org/ and click on "Helpful Handouts" in the Parents Corner area of the page.

I'm guessing they used this?

http://www.boosterseat.gov/TeacherGuideFinal1-28.pdf

It's the only thing I know of from NHTSA for schools.

papooses said:

I'm guessing they used this?

http://www.boosterseat.gov/TeacherGuideFinal1-28.pdf

It's the only thing I know of from NHTSA for schools.

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Yes, plus an additional hand-out and children's book.

MomToEliEm said:

Here are some non-government links


updated "Are you using it right" booklet - To get it, go to: http://www.usaaedfoundation.org/
Select the "Order Publications" link at the top of the form.
Select publication "544 - Installing Child Safety Seats"
You can order up to 100 brochures at a time and they are free.

"Rear-facing, Unmatched Safety" http://www.cpsafety.com/PDFfiles/RearFacingBrochure.pdf

"A Parent's Guide to Shield Booster Dangers" http://www.cpsafety.com/PDFfiles/Shi...erBrochure.pdf

"A Parent's Guide to Sheild Car Seat Dangers" http://www.cpsafety.com/PDFfiles/ShieldSeatBrochure.pdf

"Boosters are for big kids" http://www.carseat.org/Boosters/630.pdf

You can also go here: http://www.carseat.org/ and click on "Helpful Handouts" in the Parents Corner area of the page.

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Thank you for all of the links!