TXDani
Senior Community Member
Well today I finally learned what a belt shortening clip is and how to use one...whew those can be tough. Other then that it was another day full of what I have already learned from everyone on this board.
We went over seating positions for different sized children and types of restraints. And one of them was driver/adult #2 up front and in the back there was 2 outboard l/s and a lap only in the center. There was a 8 year old that was 85 lbs, a 3 year old that was 30 lbs, and a 2 month old that was 11 lbs. So I did what I know from here and put the 3 yr. 30 lb rear-facing outboard, the 2 month old rf in the center, and the 7 year old in a booster in the other outboard seating position. The instructor disappointed me then when she told me she had never heard of a rear facing child being safer or more protected then a forward facing child and that it was the parents choice to put the 3 year old rf. I told her I was doing the scenario as if they were my own kids and I would have him rf. She then went on in front of the whole class to say "what 3 year old realistically would want to be rf?" which made some class members say "how could a 3 year old rf?". I just mentioned the rf gallery and that older kids like to swing their legs over the side of the seat and let it go.
Anyway that was today...we did do a lot of hands on installing which was fun and it was interesting to watch how other people put in seats too. Ohhh and I found out LifeSavers is going to be here in Portland in 2008!!!
Jenny (Scatterbunny) get your certification so we can go together!!
We went over seating positions for different sized children and types of restraints. And one of them was driver/adult #2 up front and in the back there was 2 outboard l/s and a lap only in the center. There was a 8 year old that was 85 lbs, a 3 year old that was 30 lbs, and a 2 month old that was 11 lbs. So I did what I know from here and put the 3 yr. 30 lb rear-facing outboard, the 2 month old rf in the center, and the 7 year old in a booster in the other outboard seating position. The instructor disappointed me then when she told me she had never heard of a rear facing child being safer or more protected then a forward facing child and that it was the parents choice to put the 3 year old rf. I told her I was doing the scenario as if they were my own kids and I would have him rf. She then went on in front of the whole class to say "what 3 year old realistically would want to be rf?" which made some class members say "how could a 3 year old rf?". I just mentioned the rf gallery and that older kids like to swing their legs over the side of the seat and let it go.
Anyway that was today...we did do a lot of hands on installing which was fun and it was interesting to watch how other people put in seats too. Ohhh and I found out LifeSavers is going to be here in Portland in 2008!!!
Jenny (Scatterbunny) get your certification so we can go together!!