[blparent] searching for this car seat I saw that the ownersaid was $16

Tue Apr 3 18:43:24 UTC 2012

    It's against the law here to ride in the back of a pick up. My uncle was 
sleeping in the bed of the back of a pick up truck, while it was moving, and 
they got into a wreck. He was thrown from the truck and became paralyzed. 
This happened 20 some years ago, but it's still against the law.Why people 
don't follow the rules is beyond me. Anyway.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Erin Rumer
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:46 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] searching for this car seat I saw that the ownersaid 
was $16

It is wild to think of how dangerous things used to be and I'm so thankful
for the safety measures we're making now.  My oldest brother was able to
open the back door of the car when he was four because this was before my
parents ever had a car with automatic locks.  He went flying right out of
the car and thank God my mother was only driving 5 miles per hour at the
time because he was bruised but okay.  Additionally, I was floored when my
mother told me that after I was born the hospital staff waited for my mom to
sit in the front seat of the car before handing me over to her to head home.
Wow, times have sure changed.  It kills me when I see parents still allowing
their kids to ride in the open back ends of pick-up trucks these days with
all we know.  Common sense is definitely not common.  I can't even stand it
when dogs are in the backs of pick-up trucks let alone children.

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 10:34 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] serching for this carseet I saw that the ownersaid
was $16

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
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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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