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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ehhhh...my 5 year old who is 36inches and 30lbs who is still rearfacing...

I don't really care if its popular. You can't fix dead and my son is way safer rearfacing. [/quote]

This is nuts.

The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration's guidelines for 4-7 years olds say:

Keep your child in a forward-facing car seat with a harness until he or she reaches the top height or weight limit allowed by your car seat’s manufacturer. Once your child outgrows the forward-facing car seat with a harness, it’s time to travel in a booster seat, but still in the back seat.
http://www.safercar.gov/parents/RightSeat.htm

The American Academy of Pediatrics says to keep your child backwards until they turn two - [b]or until they are one and twenty pounds:[/b]
http://www.parenting.com/article/car-seats-safety

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The AAP no longer says this.  Cite to the AAP policy statement, not a magazine article which got it wrong.

As a tech/instructor, I know it is not wrong to turn your child FF before 2, but it is certainly not best practice.  It is safest to keep them rear facing to the maximum height/weight of the seat.  RF longer than 2 years of age continues to protect their neck and spine in a crash that happens with the front of the car (at least 70% of all crashes).

As a parent, you have to make the choices.  At a seat check, I can tell you the safest ways we know, but I can't make you do them.  I will, however, never turn a child FF before 1 and 20 pounds -- and believe me we have parents asking to do that all the time.[/quote]

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