grumpybear
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I had a chat with our local SK coordinator about me volunteering my time for SK so we got to talking about the current state of car seat safety in our state.
As I was telling him about my own experience in car seat checks (how the techs missed my improper use of LATCH twice and strongly encouraging me to FF my then-one-year-old DS) he proceeded to make excuses for them about how the LATCH manual is really, really confusing and how in our state we'd be lucky to see a one year old properly restrained in the first place (much less, RF). Then points out how the vehicle LATCH limits in the LATCH manual include the weight of the CRS (which I now know to be not true).
On top of that, when we were discussing snowsuits and how I, as a new parent did not know that you weren't supposed to buckle a snowsuited-up baby in a carseat, until I read otherwise. He then proceeded to tell me how sometimes these "sources" aren't really aware of the unique circumstances that surround specific climates. For example, how we (living in a colder climate) wouldn't quite understand the heat issues involved for someone living in Arizona. So as far as the snowsuit goes, it came across to me as it was something that he could tolerate.
It's quite disheartening to hear this coming from the SK coordinator for our community himself. I'm not sure if I should be volunteering at this point because it seems we are not on the same page.
Sorry for the rant but just wanted to get some opinions on what would be the next step for me.
What would you do? Would you still volunteer?
As I was telling him about my own experience in car seat checks (how the techs missed my improper use of LATCH twice and strongly encouraging me to FF my then-one-year-old DS) he proceeded to make excuses for them about how the LATCH manual is really, really confusing and how in our state we'd be lucky to see a one year old properly restrained in the first place (much less, RF). Then points out how the vehicle LATCH limits in the LATCH manual include the weight of the CRS (which I now know to be not true).
On top of that, when we were discussing snowsuits and how I, as a new parent did not know that you weren't supposed to buckle a snowsuited-up baby in a carseat, until I read otherwise. He then proceeded to tell me how sometimes these "sources" aren't really aware of the unique circumstances that surround specific climates. For example, how we (living in a colder climate) wouldn't quite understand the heat issues involved for someone living in Arizona. So as far as the snowsuit goes, it came across to me as it was something that he could tolerate.
It's quite disheartening to hear this coming from the SK coordinator for our community himself. I'm not sure if I should be volunteering at this point because it seems we are not on the same page.
Sorry for the rant but just wanted to get some opinions on what would be the next step for me.
What would you do? Would you still volunteer?