My DH cousin is a moron when it comes to car safety. They have no clue how to install seats correctly and constantly come over for DH and I to 'help' them (which ususally means we end up doing most of the work).
She has a 5 year old that is still harnessed in her car (big feat on my part). She has a 10 month old that is TINY (she claims that she is close to 20lbs but I doubt it). I saw this baby's car seat in her grandmother's car FF! I almost fell over in the driveway! I did speak up, but these people don't care.
Today, she asked me if she could bring over her FF seat and have me install it in her car, because she wants to put the 10 month old FF all the time! I just stared at her! I could site statistics, tell her she isn't even hitting the bare minimum for age and weight in this state...she just doesn't care. For them, 10 months is ERF'ing, as their first was FF at 6 months old (I kid you not) I called DH (who is also very into car safety). I asked him what we should do. I really want no part of helping someone FF a 10 month old. He doesn't either, but said they are going to do it whether we help them install it correctly, or they screw it up themselves. Lets just say when she changed the baby from the baby bucket (which she didn't always clip both the chest harness AND the crotch buckle shut..OMG) to the convertible seat, the seat literally tipped over in the car. She had the latch run through the FF belt path, the seat RF'ing, and then loosely hooked in. You could pick up the seat and push it across the car. She actually said "well I thought I did it right". So there is my delimma with letting her put in her own seat unsupervised.
I really think I have had enough of 'helping' them. I want to tell her that she is TOTALLY making a big mistake turning her, and if she wants to do that..she needs to do it herself. I don't want to touch her seat.
Did I mention I am 33 weeks pregnant and could shoot someone on site if they look at me crosseyed LOL?
She has a 5 year old that is still harnessed in her car (big feat on my part). She has a 10 month old that is TINY (she claims that she is close to 20lbs but I doubt it). I saw this baby's car seat in her grandmother's car FF! I almost fell over in the driveway! I did speak up, but these people don't care.
Today, she asked me if she could bring over her FF seat and have me install it in her car, because she wants to put the 10 month old FF all the time! I just stared at her! I could site statistics, tell her she isn't even hitting the bare minimum for age and weight in this state...she just doesn't care. For them, 10 months is ERF'ing, as their first was FF at 6 months old (I kid you not) I called DH (who is also very into car safety). I asked him what we should do. I really want no part of helping someone FF a 10 month old. He doesn't either, but said they are going to do it whether we help them install it correctly, or they screw it up themselves. Lets just say when she changed the baby from the baby bucket (which she didn't always clip both the chest harness AND the crotch buckle shut..OMG) to the convertible seat, the seat literally tipped over in the car. She had the latch run through the FF belt path, the seat RF'ing, and then loosely hooked in. You could pick up the seat and push it across the car. She actually said "well I thought I did it right". So there is my delimma with letting her put in her own seat unsupervised.
I really think I have had enough of 'helping' them. I want to tell her that she is TOTALLY making a big mistake turning her, and if she wants to do that..she needs to do it herself. I don't want to touch her seat.
Did I mention I am 33 weeks pregnant and could shoot someone on site if they look at me crosseyed LOL?