super_grape
Active member
DH and I were watching 20/20 and John Stossel (sp?)
had this Freakonomics guy on who said (taking a deep,
angry breath here) that after the age of 2 a car seat
isn't any safer than a seat belt!!!!
His reasoning was that all seats are practically impossible
to install and the manuals are (gasp) sometimes 39 pages long.
How can anyone be expected to read such a long manual (thppppppt!).
However...he barely touched on misuse and just kept repeating
this ridiculousness over and over.
I was a bit releaved to her John Stossel say at the end of the segment
that properly used seats do save lives and to have a tech check/install your
seat...but REALLY! I am so sick of hearing things like this, MOST ESPECIALLY
on national television. Why can't they focus on misuse and how to correct
it instead of saying "oh well, you'll do it wrong so don't even bother"!
I wish someone would do a segment on how it is a parents responsibility
to do their very best to keep their kid(s) safe...even if that involves
reading a 39 page car seat manual...SHEESH!
What makes me the most angry is that many parents will say now
"well, it's just as safe" and forget about properly restraining their kids
because that's what they said on 20/20.
Shame on you, 20/20!!!!
had this Freakonomics guy on who said (taking a deep,
angry breath here) that after the age of 2 a car seat
isn't any safer than a seat belt!!!!
His reasoning was that all seats are practically impossible
to install and the manuals are (gasp) sometimes 39 pages long.
How can anyone be expected to read such a long manual (thppppppt!).
However...he barely touched on misuse and just kept repeating
this ridiculousness over and over.
I was a bit releaved to her John Stossel say at the end of the segment
that properly used seats do save lives and to have a tech check/install your
seat...but REALLY! I am so sick of hearing things like this, MOST ESPECIALLY
on national television. Why can't they focus on misuse and how to correct
it instead of saying "oh well, you'll do it wrong so don't even bother"!
I wish someone would do a segment on how it is a parents responsibility
to do their very best to keep their kid(s) safe...even if that involves
reading a 39 page car seat manual...SHEESH!
What makes me the most angry is that many parents will say now
"well, it's just as safe" and forget about properly restraining their kids
because that's what they said on 20/20.
Shame on you, 20/20!!!!