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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kindergarten. Seriously, don't do that to your kid. [/quote]

In many places the kids seriously don't care. In my neighborhood and school community it's normal to stay in a car seat until 1st or 2nd and the kids rarely see each other in cars anyway because most people walk places including school.

Eventually the kids do start talking about it and notice who is still in a carseat versus who is in a booster (and the kids think a high back booster is a carseat so you get feedback about that two). But it doesn't come up until around 2nd grade because that's when a critical mass of kids have switched and it's also when more families start giving kids rides to activities and things as kids get more into sports and other activities and schedules start getting busier.

Similarly kids in my neighborhood are in strollers longer than I know some people think is "normal" and it's because people walk a lot and if you do a .8 mile walk to and from school with a stop at the grocery store daily then it's not a big deal to see preschoolers or even young kindergarteners in strollers occasionally. Whereas in a suburb where everyone drives people ditch strollers sooner because they don't use strollers in the same way.[/quote]

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