Any good 1-2 page handouts on safest practices?

Worry Mama

New member
I want to include a 1-2 page handout on safest carseat practices (leave RF for as long as possible, leave in 5 pt harness as long as possible, etc) in my mom's group packets. I haven't been able to find any good, condensed handouts. I just know many moms in my mom's group do the standard forward facing at one, booster about age 4, and I want to present them with convincing info (including reasons why it is safer and maybe some stats). So if anyone knows where I can find such a handout I would appreciate it (I checked out AAP - not a big fan of that one, BTW are they going to officially change their recs to keep RF until at least 2 or limits of the car seat or was that placed on hold?). Thanks a bunch.
 
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Jeanum

Admin - CPS Technician Emeritus
Staff member
You could pick and choose from the reproducible handouts at Safety Belt Safe USA at http://carseat.org/Resources/Repro_Mat_Lst.htm to suit your needs. For example, there's an up-to-date new 1-page handout about basic guidelines/best practices at http://carseat.org/Resources/651_Basic.pdf and a more in-depth revised 3-page handout at http://carseat.org/Resources/624_bestseat.pdf that reflects the availability of convertibles that can rear face up to 45 lbs. The 5-step test is described in both of the above handouts, and with greater detail in the 3-page handout. There's also a separate handout available at http://carseat.org/Boosters/630.pdf that describes and illustrates the 5-step test. :thumbsup:
 

MomToEliEm

Moderator
For distributing to people, I really like the free booklet you can order from USAA (here is the PDF version: http://www.usaaedfoundation.org/pdf/544.pdf). It has a lot of use/misuse pictures in it which is really handy, though doesn't go into a lot of "best practice" discussions.
To get it, go to: http://www.usaaedfoundation.org/
Select the "Order Publications" link at the top of the form.
Select publication "544 - Installing Child Safety Seats"
You can order up to 100 brochures at a time and they are free.

Some other things I sometimes use (some are duplicates of what was posted earlier, but I am just copying and pasting info):

Extended Rearfacing Info:
http://www.carseatsite.com/RF_Handout2.pdf
http://www.cpsafety.com/PDFfiles/RearFacingBrochure.pdf
http://carseat.org/Resources/633.pdf
http://aapnews.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/30/4/12-a

Extended Harnessing Info:
http://www.carseatsite.com/EH_handout.pdf

Danger of Shield Car Seats:
http://www.cpsafety.com/PDFfiles/ShieldSeatBrochure.pdf

Boosters are for big kids:
http://carseat.org/Boosters/630.pdf

Used Carseat Checklist:
http://carseat.org/Resources/15_recycled_seats.pdf
 
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