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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.

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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 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 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.

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.

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

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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”

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 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 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 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 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 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?

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.