8 yo in a 5 point harness?

[Anonymous]

My 2 cents is if they are not complaining about the carseat with the 5 point harness then use it. They are much safer in a crash. My 2 boys are 5 and 8, they are both in 5 point. They are also both small, 25 percentile hight and weight. When my oldest mentioned moving out of it we will but as long as he's happy in it I'll stick with it.

[Anonymous]

We should all be in 5-point belts, including on airplanes during turbulence.

Car accidents are the number one cause of premature death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she doesn't have an issue with it, I don't see any reason to push it. She's a small kid the seat is safer. Even as an adult I had a nasty bruise on my shoulder from the belt when I was in a car that was rear ended, a five point harness wouldn't have that.

Right the kid would have nasty bruises on both shoulders.

[Anonymous]

She should still be rear-facing!!! You’re a terrible parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should all be in 5-point belts, including on airplanes during turbulence.

Car accidents are the number one cause of premature death.

We should also wear tethered helmets and fireproof suits, like race car drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she doesn't have an issue with it, I don't see any reason to push it. She's a small kid the seat is safer. Even as an adult I had a nasty bruise on my shoulder from the belt when I was in a car that was rear ended, a five point harness wouldn't have that.

Right the kid would have nasty bruises on both shoulders.

There is also evidence that a 5-point harness causes more neck injury because only the head moves forward in a crash.

Believing that any safety technology is by definition safer, especially if used in an unusual and unstudied way (like a 5-pr harness for an older child) is more about anxiety and superstition than anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should all be in 5-point belts, including on airplanes during turbulence.

Car accidents are the number one cause of premature death.

We should also wear tethered helmets and fireproof suits, like race car drivers.

Helmets are not a bad idea.

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t matter what anyone else does, OP. If she still fits in the seat and doesn’t mind it, why switch? 5-point is safer than booster if she still fits.

(Though I agree w another poster you should double check her height/weight and the seat height/weight limits. My 8 year old is roughly the same size as yours and she outgrew her Britax boulevard 5-point harness 6 months ago.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 5 year old is in a booster. Why are you still using the toddler seat?

Car seat recommendations are made based on height/weight, not age. I doubt that your 5 year old is larger than OP’s 8 year old. Most likely your kid would be safer still in a 5-point harness too. That was a choice you likely made based on your convenience more so than your kid’s safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teeing off the other thread about a 10 YO in a high back booster, my 8 YO is still in a five point harness. She’s 55 lbs and maybe 54 inches or so, under the height and weight requirements for the seat. She hasn’t been asking to switch, but is there any reason we should move her to the high back with seat belt?

I would double check that seat label. You think you have a five-point harness that fits a four foot six inch child *in the harnessed configuration*? And is in-date?

Yeah, the 4 ft 6 inches part seems wrong. I have an 8 year old that is 4 ft 4 inches who is quite close to being big enough to sit in our main car without a booster. I looked up our previous 5 pt harness car seat (a nuna rava) and it tops out at 49" for forward facing. Cleks top out at 49" too, which was the other one I think of as recommended for taller kids. Maybe OP meant 44 inches tall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she doesn't have an issue with it, I don't see any reason to push it. She's a small kid the seat is safer. Even as an adult I had a nasty bruise on my shoulder from the belt when I was in a car that was rear ended, a five point harness wouldn't have that.

Right the kid would have nasty bruises on both shoulders.

That's not how force works. Distributing the force over more points lessens the impact on any one point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should all be in 5-point belts, including on airplanes during turbulence.

Car accidents are the number one cause of premature death.

Oh you sweet summer child, that's not even close to true. Only around 35,000 a year die in car accidents in the USA.

Over 700,000 per year die due to medical errors, that's the #1 cause of death now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should all be in 5-point belts, including on airplanes during turbulence.

Car accidents are the number one cause of premature death.

We should also wear tethered helmets and fireproof suits, like race car drivers.

Helmets are not a bad idea.

Helmets increase car wrecks due to more limited vision and sensory deprivation overall such as hearing, etc.