Do you travel with a backless booster?

[Anonymous]

We used a Bubble Bum or borrowed one at our destination. We’d take occasional Ubers without a booster.

By age 9 though I don’t think I’d travel with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked at the number of 9/10 year olds still using a booster. Ours doesn’t anymore, so we don’t travel with it.

Mine is 8.5 and 90 percentile for height and weight, plus a 6 yr old, and I still plan on taking them when we go to Minnesota in a couple weeks. I hadnt even considered the fact they would outgrow boosters soon, why risk it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We probably did for our first kid. Now with our 3rd kid - currently 6.5 - we don't do boosters at all.

Yeah I heard by the 3rd kid your womb births the kids with titanium skeleton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the rental car companies not have them? We’ve always rented car seats and backed boosters, but haven’t gotten to backless. But I feel like the regular booster they’ve given us comes apart?

We have found them pretty grumpy and quite expensive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked at the number of 9/10 year olds still using a booster. Ours doesn’t anymore, so we don’t travel with it.

It’s about height not age.

Most children need a booster seat until they are about 4'9" (57 inches)

Though younger kids also have more fragile bodies

https://www.mercy.net/content/dam/mercy/en/pdf/lisa-schwing-biomechanics-of-kids-in-car-crashes-22885.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had a bumble bum or whatever it’s called. Super easy to pack and travel with.

We bought one. Super tiny and convenient but not very sturdy. It popped before the end of a single trip.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we traveled with backless boosters for both of our kids until they aged out of them (where we lived at the time, the age to be out of a booster was 12; neither of my kids met the height/weight requirement to age out before 12). We just carried them on the plane and put them in the overhead bin (we only carried back packs for carry-ons which fit under the seats). I never regretted it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked at the number of 9/10 year olds still using a booster. Ours doesn’t anymore, so we don’t travel with it.

Same. My above average sized 7year old isn’t even in a booster anymore.

Isn’t it a law? In my state you have to use a booster until 8 AND 4’9”

[Anonymous]

At 9 I would just order a typical seat booster for the trip or a bubble bum.

[Anonymous]

Yes you legally must be in a booster seat until the child is 4 foot 9 inches. Op you have at least 2 if not 3 more years in a booster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes you legally must be in a booster seat until the child is 4 foot 9 inches. Op you have at least 2 if not 3 more years in a booster.

I don't think there are *any* states that require booster seats for kids 8 and older. The height rules only apply to kids younger than 8.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At 9 I would just order a typical seat booster for the trip or a bubble bum.

Not for a 9-year-old!

There isn't even good data for booster seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At 9 I would just order a typical seat booster for the trip or a bubble bum.

Not for a 9-year-old!

There isn't even good data for booster seats.

This 9 year old is pretty small, though. My 7 year old is 8 lbs heavier and 4 inches taller and he’s still in a booster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked at the number of 9/10 year olds still using a booster. Ours doesn’t anymore, so we don’t travel with it.

Same. My above average sized 7year old isn’t even in a booster anymore.

Isn’t it a law? In my state you have to use a booster until 8 AND 4’9”

It's an OR, not an AND. The booster seat industry tries to lobby for AND clauses, but they get changed to ORs.