tanyaandallie
Senior Community Member
We had a super busy seat check today. The rain was threatening most of the day but held off until the end. It actually made it far cooler and much more pleasant.
I checked a ton of seats and had more tough decisions in one day then I ever like to see. The very first car I had was a mom with 6 kids (luckily only 4 present) in a 5 passeneger suv. Middle seat belt was broken. It was lap only and mom had it rigged with a rope so that it would stay tight. Tough decision. We put the 6 year old (who needed a booster) in the lap only position, oldest was in front. 18ish mos old in a Chase and the 2.5 year old in a hbb. Mom swore she was going on Monday to get the center seatbelt fixed but we just could not install a seat there because it just didn't work. Now I'm wondering if a belt shortening clip would have fixed it. Not sure. I wanted to cry about the 2.5 year old in the booster but he was 40+ and we had no hwh available.
I also had a mom with an infant seat with no chest clip. She didn't want to give it up for a new seat so she left in the seat with clip. I encouraged her to get a new one from Graco. The 2 year old came with no seat.
There are just too many kids with no seats. I replaced every seat or provided a new seat to every single child I saw (except the infant). The past 3 seat checks I have done most kids have come through with no seat at all.
Anyone else do a check this weekend?
I checked a ton of seats and had more tough decisions in one day then I ever like to see. The very first car I had was a mom with 6 kids (luckily only 4 present) in a 5 passeneger suv. Middle seat belt was broken. It was lap only and mom had it rigged with a rope so that it would stay tight. Tough decision. We put the 6 year old (who needed a booster) in the lap only position, oldest was in front. 18ish mos old in a Chase and the 2.5 year old in a hbb. Mom swore she was going on Monday to get the center seatbelt fixed but we just could not install a seat there because it just didn't work. Now I'm wondering if a belt shortening clip would have fixed it. Not sure. I wanted to cry about the 2.5 year old in the booster but he was 40+ and we had no hwh available.
I also had a mom with an infant seat with no chest clip. She didn't want to give it up for a new seat so she left in the seat with clip. I encouraged her to get a new one from Graco. The 2 year old came with no seat.
There are just too many kids with no seats. I replaced every seat or provided a new seat to every single child I saw (except the infant). The past 3 seat checks I have done most kids have come through with no seat at all.
Anyone else do a check this weekend?