ladydisdain
New member
I came here looking for info on the Bundle Me/safety issue, and thought I'd look around while I was here. This thread kind of stuns me. I honestly can't believe how many people who are obsessed (in a very good way) with car seat safety talk on the phone in their car. Study after study (a few linked above) has shown that this is not safe, that it impairs your reaction time as much as or more than drinking does, that it is a bigger distraction than passenger conversations - and yet so many of you continue to do it. Do you not see the disconnect between being so worried about proper car seat use and then hopping in the car and making and receiving phone calls? And the reasons you cite - pizza ordering, traffic checking, checking in with your spouse - are any of these things more important than possibly causing an accident?
In my traffic-heavy SAHM-heavy suburban area, I cannot tell you how many times I see mothers on cell phones with kids in the back doing reckless, illegal, and stupid things while driving. People on cell phones rarely signal and often drift over the lane lines. I cannot tell you how many times I have almost been hit by people on cell phones, who never hear my horn (or realize it's for them, because they're on the phone).
One of my biggest fears as a parent is that one of these people in an Escalade or a Hummer or a Yukon is going to run a stop sign and plow right into my Honda Civic and injure or kill my baby.
In my traffic-heavy SAHM-heavy suburban area, I cannot tell you how many times I see mothers on cell phones with kids in the back doing reckless, illegal, and stupid things while driving. People on cell phones rarely signal and often drift over the lane lines. I cannot tell you how many times I have almost been hit by people on cell phones, who never hear my horn (or realize it's for them, because they're on the phone).
One of my biggest fears as a parent is that one of these people in an Escalade or a Hummer or a Yukon is going to run a stop sign and plow right into my Honda Civic and injure or kill my baby.