Strict about seatbelts

[Anonymous]

My two teens tell me that many of their friends don't wear seatbelts and that's even when parents are driving. I have always been strict about seatbelts, so when kids get into my car I won't pull out of the driveway or wherever I am until they buckle up. And some of them get in and start chatting and don't immediately buckle up, so I'm guessing they don't in their family cars either.

Are we not trying to keep our kids alive? Is this not the same generation of parents that kept their kids rear facing forever? I'm confused. Have you given up? This is a basic safety thing. It's so easy. And yes they should buckle up on the 1 mile drive to school. You can be in an accident anywhere, not just the highway.

[Anonymous]

All of DS' friends pretty much immediately put their seat belts on when they get in my car so I imagine they do the same in theirs.

[Anonymous]

DS and all his friends wear seatbelts with zero reminders needed. Your way of posting is so obnoxious and condescending

[Anonymous]

My dcs all put on automatically. I can’t get their napkins in their Laos but they all do that. Lol.

[Anonymous]

My kids also have friends like this. They act surprised when I ask if they buckled up.
I’m making a mental note and hope that my kids will never ride in those kids’ cars when they are old enough to drive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids also have friends like this. They act surprised when I ask if they buckled up.
I’m making a mental note and hope that my kids will never ride in those kids’ cars when they are old enough to drive.

Seatbelt buckling is so automatic for my generation and below, 1980s/1990s that I’m surprise to learn there are kids that are not buckling. All of the kids and my fear do. But if I were to encounter one that didn’t, then I would make a note and never let my kid ride with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS and all his friends wear seatbelts with zero reminders needed. Your way of posting is so obnoxious and condescending

Agree. OP, your post sounds like you fancy yourself suddenly enlightened about something that does not relate to many.

[Anonymous]

Nope, car doesn't move until seat belts are on. Agree with PP--if I found out a parent didn't require them my kid wouldn't be riding with them.

My DH and I are actually relatively lax parents, but seatbelts are the hill we die on. We have all seen the way people drive around here.

[Anonymous]

You sound like a troll trying to get a fight going. I don't know of any teen or parent who doesn't put their seatbelt on in this day and age, but maybe you run in different circles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My two teens tell me that many of their friends don't wear seatbelts and that's even when parents are driving. I have always been strict about seatbelts, so when kids get into my car I won't pull out of the driveway or wherever I am until they buckle up. And some of them get in and start chatting and don't immediately buckle up, so I'm guessing they don't in their family cars either.

[/b]Are we not trying to keep our kids alive?[b] Is this not the same generation of parents that kept their kids rear facing forever? I'm confused. Have you given up? This is a basic safety thing. It's so easy. And yes they should buckle up on the 1 mile drive to school. You can be in an accident anywhere, not just the highway.

WTF. Get off your high horse Karen. Yes, we’re all trying to kill our kids except for perfect parents like you.

[Anonymous]

The only teens I see not wearing seatbelts are those in jacked up pickup trucks. But the adults aren't in those vehicles either, so like father like son. Could be that it is easier for me to see they don't than those in normal sized vehicles.

My nephew, who would want to own a jacked up pickup truck often doesn't. Same with his mother.

My son & his friends all do.

Yes, OP some people are stupid.

[Anonymous]

I know the kind of parents you’re talking about- it’s like they’re my friends’ parents in the 80s.

My DD is at a private school and I live a half mile from school dropoff and see her friends in parents’ cars leaning into the front seat in a way no seatbelt can accommodate or sitting in the front seat. They’re 8!

I’ve also seen older, middle school kids pop out of sunroofs to say hi to friends or leaning out windows with no seatbelts. So my guess is it starts with the “but we’re not going far/just to dropoff/just for a minute” crowd.

[Anonymous]

I first encountered this with DC's friend in elementary school. Friend's grandparents drive her around and did not make her wear seatbelts. My jaw dropped, but I think it was a generational thing.

[Anonymous]

My teenager has friends that don’t wear seatbelts and parents don’t make them. He was showing me some BeReal pics and happen to scroll by one where it was very obvious a whole group of them were not. From the picture background, I recognized it as limited access road and not one near their school. I didn’t say anything to him at the time, but made a mental note to remind him of the importance of seatbelts.

These are the same parents who don’t make their kids where helmets at the bike park so they’re comfort level is different than mine.

[Anonymous]

When teens are alone they don’t always put their seatbelts on. With an adult they usually know they have to