SPJ&E
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It's been a while since I've dealt with plain ignorance...but good lord!
Someone posted on Joshua's birth board (April 2006) about FF and if it was okay to do it now because her daughter outgrew the infant seat...bla bla bla. I replied and said no it wasn't, that she could get a Cosco Scenera for only $40 at Wal-Mart and gave her the info and the link to the video with crash test footage. A few other people basically said the same. This comes this one that I want to CHOKE!!
"I'll be honest even though most the girls on here disagree with me, my daughter is 20pounds and she is in a front facing 5 point harness carseat. I am very comfrontable with it and she is too. You need to do what you are comfrontable with. Yes it is safer to keep the baby facing rear but if you feel confident that yuor baby is strong enough and you are comfrontable with it a front facing carseat is fine over 20pounds."
Which I replied to with this: "That is absolutely 100% NOT true. If you watch the video I linked her to and read the current information, you will see that rear-facing is extremely important. Just please watch the crash test footage and see the difference it makes on the child. http://youtube.com/watch?v=kRP7ynNI8mI"
And she says "Thank you for your concern but I'm very confident in the way I have decided to travel with my child and not really interested. That's your opinion just as it is my opinion that it's fine. Since way before either of us had babys, people have turned the children around and they have been just fine. Notice I did say it is safer to keep them rear facing, I'm not saying that front facing is the safest, but each baby is an individual and so they each have different needs. I'll remember to add "in my opinion" for now when I give someone my opinion"
Give me a break! Not interested!? Why would you not be interested in keeping your baby safe...what is that!? I replied with this...I am so mad, lol:
"Like I said, that's your choice. I can just say that I've done the research and I know for a fact my boys are safest rear-facing...they deserve the best and that's what I'll give them.
Sure people have turned baby's around since whenever and most of them turned out fine. I don't find that to be a valid argument with anything. Some kids are abused and turn out fine...some people do drugs around their kids and they turn out fine...that doesn't make it okay. They do crash tests and improve carseats and recommendations for a reason. If the reports and crash test footage show, very clearly, that it makes an enormous difference on the child, I don't see why on earth anyone wouldn't want to keep their child as safe as they can."
It's a lost cause and I know that...but geez!
Someone posted on Joshua's birth board (April 2006) about FF and if it was okay to do it now because her daughter outgrew the infant seat...bla bla bla. I replied and said no it wasn't, that she could get a Cosco Scenera for only $40 at Wal-Mart and gave her the info and the link to the video with crash test footage. A few other people basically said the same. This comes this one that I want to CHOKE!!
"I'll be honest even though most the girls on here disagree with me, my daughter is 20pounds and she is in a front facing 5 point harness carseat. I am very comfrontable with it and she is too. You need to do what you are comfrontable with. Yes it is safer to keep the baby facing rear but if you feel confident that yuor baby is strong enough and you are comfrontable with it a front facing carseat is fine over 20pounds."
Which I replied to with this: "That is absolutely 100% NOT true. If you watch the video I linked her to and read the current information, you will see that rear-facing is extremely important. Just please watch the crash test footage and see the difference it makes on the child. http://youtube.com/watch?v=kRP7ynNI8mI"
And she says "Thank you for your concern but I'm very confident in the way I have decided to travel with my child and not really interested. That's your opinion just as it is my opinion that it's fine. Since way before either of us had babys, people have turned the children around and they have been just fine. Notice I did say it is safer to keep them rear facing, I'm not saying that front facing is the safest, but each baby is an individual and so they each have different needs. I'll remember to add "in my opinion" for now when I give someone my opinion"
Give me a break! Not interested!? Why would you not be interested in keeping your baby safe...what is that!? I replied with this...I am so mad, lol:
"Like I said, that's your choice. I can just say that I've done the research and I know for a fact my boys are safest rear-facing...they deserve the best and that's what I'll give them.
Sure people have turned baby's around since whenever and most of them turned out fine. I don't find that to be a valid argument with anything. Some kids are abused and turn out fine...some people do drugs around their kids and they turn out fine...that doesn't make it okay. They do crash tests and improve carseats and recommendations for a reason. If the reports and crash test footage show, very clearly, that it makes an enormous difference on the child, I don't see why on earth anyone wouldn't want to keep their child as safe as they can."
It's a lost cause and I know that...but geez!