Backless Booster

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4 for us. My DD really fought for it.

Okay troll

Not a troll. DD has an older sister which is 9 and she would not want a different seat any longer and hated the 5 point harness.
My 9 year old sits without booster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4 for us. My DD really fought for it.

Okay troll

Not a troll. DD has an older sister which is 9 and she would not want a different seat any longer and hated the 5 point harness.
My 9 year old sits without booster.

Not sure why I should be a troll. The booster seat says it's good from 4-10 years.

[Anonymous]

Some of you parents (and your kids) need to grow a set of balls and parent your kids.

Neighborhood kids made fun of him as a reason to change seats? Wait until he is a teen and everyone makes fun of him for not smoking, drinking, not having sex, being a nerd doing homework etc...

And my kid whines or complains? LOL - great reason.

[Anonymous]

High back around 5-6, backless around 7. Still occasionally used the 5 point for long trips until around 6-6.5. Depends on the maturity/size of the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you parents (and your kids) need to grow a set of balls and parent your kids.

Neighborhood kids made fun of him as a reason to change seats? Wait until he is a teen and everyone makes fun of him for not smoking, drinking, not having sex, being a nerd doing homework etc...

And my kid whines or complains? LOL - great reason.

Yeah, I know. I suck. But sometimes you pick your battles. I've read a bunch of stuff that says the harness is safer, but you're talking .5% safer versus 20% safer. It's not like I'm throwing my kid in the back of a pickup truck. He meets the height/weight requirements of a backless booster. So I caved and I'll also encourage him to be a method addict.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I were a kid I would want to keep the HBB forever- such better support for sleeping!!!

This is why my 7yo is still in a HBB. He likes it, it's really comfortable, and he can rest his head on something while we're in the car.

[Anonymous]

Highback booster till 9y in our house. They liked the headrest and never complained about it. Backless boosters now at 9.5 with no plans to get rid of them any time soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you parents (and your kids) need to grow a set of balls and parent your kids.

Neighborhood kids made fun of him as a reason to change seats? Wait until he is a teen and everyone makes fun of him for not smoking, drinking, not having sex, being a nerd doing homework etc...

And my kid whines or complains? LOL - great reason.

Thanks for the input!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you parents (and your kids) need to grow a set of balls and parent your kids.

Neighborhood kids made fun of him as a reason to change seats? Wait until he is a teen and everyone makes fun of him for not smoking, drinking, not having sex, being a nerd doing homework etc...

And my kid whines or complains? LOL - great reason.

+1

I was thinking the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you parents (and your kids) need to grow a set of balls and parent your kids.

Neighborhood kids made fun of him as a reason to change seats? Wait until he is a teen and everyone makes fun of him for not smoking, drinking, not having sex, being a nerd doing homework etc...

And my kid whines or complains? LOL - great reason.

Yeah, I know. I suck. But sometimes you pick your battles. I've read a bunch of stuff that says the harness is safer, but you're talking .5% safer versus 20% safer. It's not like I'm throwing my kid in the back of a pickup truck. He meets the height/weight requirements of a backless booster. So I caved and I'll also encourage him to be a method addict.

+1. People on this forum really overestimate the amount of safety provided by various car seat apparatus at various ages. Personally, I think it's because we all like to think we have way more control over things than we actually do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By 8, my kids were completely out of all boosters and just used regular seatbelt.

Your child must have been huge then. In order to be out of a booster a child needs to be able to sit with their rear all the way in the bite of the seat, knees bent over the edge and feet flat on the floor. Plus the seatbelt has to be high on the thighs, not on the abdomen. FWIW, my large 11 year old is out of a booster in DH's Elantra. He is still in a booster in my Odyssey because he doesn't fit without one. My HUGE (and by huge I mean very very tall) 8 year old is still in a booster in both cars--she doesn't fit even a little bit without one.

See, what I don't get is I am 5'0 and ~110 pounds. When I started driving I was well under 100 pounds. Would I have had to drive in a booster seat?!?! Seriously worried about my DD ending up being in a booster until she's in college!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By 8, my kids were completely out of all boosters and just used regular seatbelt.

Your child must have been huge then. In order to be out of a booster a child needs to be able to sit with their rear all the way in the bite of the seat, knees bent over the edge and feet flat on the floor. Plus the seatbelt has to be high on the thighs, not on the abdomen. FWIW, my large 11 year old is out of a booster in DH's Elantra. He is still in a booster in my Odyssey because he doesn't fit without one. My HUGE (and by huge I mean very very tall) 8 year old is still in a booster in both cars--she doesn't fit even a little bit without one.

See, what I don't get is I am 5'0 and ~110 pounds. When I started driving I was well under 100 pounds. Would I have had to drive in a booster seat?!?! Seriously worried about my DD ending up being in a booster until she's in college!!

Well you are not educated in car seat safety. Kids need to be in a booster until 57" and having the seatbelt fit well on their shoulder and not up by their neck. Also, the reason kids should not be in the front seat until age 13 or 14 is because their bone structure is not as thick and formed as an adult (especially during puberty when they are growing so fast) and they prone to more injuries and fatalities than an adult in the passenger seat. And we all know the passenger seat is the seat of death but yet stupid parents let their 8-10yr olds up there when they whine or complain.

And car seat safety changes yearly and some people are all into it when they have babies and then they don't keep up with it. It is now mandatory in many states to rear-face until minimum 2yrs old. Mandatory for many to be in a booster until minimum 8yrs old. Each state has a law that are bare bones minimum and each year the AAP does more studying and comes up with their recommendations. It takes years for the states to get approval on what pediatricians and car seat company and technicians recommend. By the time a new one is approved there are better seats and recommendations the AAP will find. This is actually a good thing.

[Anonymous]

DS is turning 8 this month. He still prefers his HBB though he rides in a NBB for field trips. When the baby arrives this summer we'll see if he 5-steps. He's 99th for height so he just might. He would probably still prefer a HBB, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By 8, my kids were completely out of all boosters and just used regular seatbelt.

Your child must have been huge then. In order to be out of a booster a child needs to be able to sit with their rear all the way in the bite of the seat, knees bent over the edge and feet flat on the floor. Plus the seatbelt has to be high on the thighs, not on the abdomen. FWIW, my large 11 year old is out of a booster in DH's Elantra. He is still in a booster in my Odyssey because he doesn't fit without one. My HUGE (and by huge I mean very very tall) 8 year old is still in a booster in both cars--she doesn't fit even a little bit without one.

This simply isn't true. The seat belt just needs to fit properly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By 8, my kids were completely out of all boosters and just used regular seatbelt.

Your child must have been huge then. In order to be out of a booster a child needs to be able to sit with their rear all the way in the bite of the seat, knees bent over the edge and feet flat on the floor. Plus the seatbelt has to be high on the thighs, not on the abdomen. FWIW, my large 11 year old is out of a booster in DH's Elantra. He is still in a booster in my Odyssey because he doesn't fit without one. My HUGE (and by huge I mean very very tall) 8 year old is still in a booster in both cars--she doesn't fit even a little bit without one.

See, what I don't get is I am 5'0 and ~110 pounds. When I started driving I was well under 100 pounds. Would I have had to drive in a booster seat?!?! Seriously worried about my DD ending up being in a booster until she's in college!!

Well you are not educated in car seat safety. Kids need to be in a booster until 57" and having the seatbelt fit well on their shoulder and not up by their neck. Also, the reason kids should not be in the front seat until age 13 or 14 is because their bone structure is not as thick and formed as an adult (especially during puberty when they are growing so fast) and they prone to more injuries and fatalities than an adult in the passenger seat. And we all know the passenger seat is the seat of death but yet stupid parents let their 8-10yr olds up there when they whine or complain.

And car seat safety changes yearly and some people are all into it when they have babies and then they don't keep up with it. It is now mandatory in many states to rear-face until minimum 2yrs old. Mandatory for many to be in a booster until minimum 8yrs old. Each state has a law that are bare bones minimum and each year the AAP does more studying and comes up with their recommendations. It takes years for the states to get approval on what pediatricians and car seat company and technicians recommend. By the time a new one is approved there are better seats and recommendations the AAP will find. This is actually a good thing.

You can stop talking now.