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My dad keeps on me about letting him take Charlie somewhere in his truck. Not gonna happen. He had a perfectly nice Subaru that he got rid of in exchange for an F-150. It's a nice truck, but still not gonna let my kid ride with him in it. He also has (or, has access to) a Buick LeSabre (with three full sets of LATCH!) if he needs to take him somewhere.
So, we were at lunch with friends from the old neighborhood last week. We were talking about Dinosaur World (totally hoaky tourist attraction in Plant City that Charlie would loooove) and my dad complained that i won't let him take him because of the truck. One of the buddies asked why, I said it wasn't safe for him. He started about how trucks are the safest thing on the road yadda yadda.
So Haywood, another buddy, pipes in "Actually david, it's not recommended to put a car seat in front of an airbag. A kid needs to be at least 12 and out of a car seat before they can ride in the front. Plus, you won't have those little hooks to clip the seat in." Even Haywood's wife looked at him oddly! His oldest kid is 21, his youngest is 12. He has no reason to know anything about car seats, but he had that little morsel in the back of his head! But dad was willing to take it from Haywood and decide that maybe I was right about it.
So, even 50 year old guys with no little kids and no child involvement can pick up CPS rules along the way!
So, we were at lunch with friends from the old neighborhood last week. We were talking about Dinosaur World (totally hoaky tourist attraction in Plant City that Charlie would loooove) and my dad complained that i won't let him take him because of the truck. One of the buddies asked why, I said it wasn't safe for him. He started about how trucks are the safest thing on the road yadda yadda.
So Haywood, another buddy, pipes in "Actually david, it's not recommended to put a car seat in front of an airbag. A kid needs to be at least 12 and out of a car seat before they can ride in the front. Plus, you won't have those little hooks to clip the seat in." Even Haywood's wife looked at him oddly! His oldest kid is 21, his youngest is 12. He has no reason to know anything about car seats, but he had that little morsel in the back of his head! But dad was willing to take it from Haywood and decide that maybe I was right about it.
So, even 50 year old guys with no little kids and no child involvement can pick up CPS rules along the way!