[blparent] serching for this carseet I saw that the ownersaid was $16

Tue Apr 3 17:34:02 UTC 2012

I recently looked up the regulations for car seats, since I was thinking of 
graduating my daughter to a booster.

Keep your child in a car seat with a five-point harness for as long as 
possible, since that's the safest option.  Don't graduate him or her to a 
booster just because the fourth birthday has come and gone or the 
forty-pound weight limit has been exceeded.

To graduate to a booster, your child must be four years old, or forty 
pounds, *and* your child must be taller at the shoulder than the shoulder 
straps on the car seat at their highest setting.  So the height requirement 
must be met before considering a booster, even if the child is four years 
old, or forty pounds.

Sorry, Sarah, it'll be a good while in the car seat yet.  More like sorry, 
Mom, you have to drag the bulky thing around.  But I'll keep her in it as 
the safest option till she won't fit anymore.  I was a premature baby, and 
still catching up--I don't think I would have met the requirements to get 
out of a car seat till I was in the second or third grade.  But when we were 
kids, seat belts weren't even mandatory.  My mom drove a retired postal 
jeep, and we rolled around in the back of that thing like jelly beans, 
playing and fighting.  It's scary to think what could have happened.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 10:31 AM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] serching for this carseet I saw that the ownersaidwas	$16> Last time I looked, I was two inches above the height to need to ride in a 
booster.
>
> I'm probably too short to ride shotgun safely with the airbags most cars 
> have now.
>
> Safety is good, I just sometimes think they need to make a safer car, v. 
> the ever changing requirements for booster and carseats. I do wonder who 
> and what is driving that.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Melissa Ann Riccobono
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:05 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] serching for this carseet I saw that the owner 
> said was $16
>
> This sounds like a booster seat--not a full car seat.  If Tiffany is big
> enough for a booster, then I'd just look at WalMart or Target and see what
> you find.  Make sure you check out all height and weight requirements 
> though
> (I'm sure you would anyway) as they are constantly changing and kids need 
> to
> be in a seat with a five point harness for longer and longer periods of 
> time
> these days.  And they also need to be in boosters with backs for longer
> periods of time--not just in a booster without a back and the regular car
> seat belt.  My kids are on the light side, which is a good thing in 
> general,
> but I feel as if they will be in big bulky car seats forever!
> Sorry I couldn't be more help.
> Melissa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Kate McEachern
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 8:52 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] serching for this carseet I saw that the owner said 
> was
> $16
>
> OK,  if any one knows what carseet this is I would love the help so I can
> buy it.
>
> It looks like the bottem part of a carseet with out a back but it has two
> slots for the seat belt to go through.  It also has a tether strap for new
> cars.  It was lightwait and looks like it would fit in a bag.  Her's the
> ishue, when I asked the person who had it where they got it they said they
> thought the person who got it for them got it at Target for $16.  Tiffany
> needs a new carseat and I would love to buy this one because it would work
> with TOPS when I can't use the bus.  So, does any one knhow what carseet
> this is?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Kate
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