Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 14:16     Subject: Re:Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am 35 and I wasn’t allowed to sit in the front until the age of 12. This is not a new rule.


I wonder when it started?
I am 43 and remember riding in the front seat as young as 4 years old.


I'm 54 and wasn't allowed to sit in the front seat until I was a teenager--ergo 13. So it started a long time ago if your parents were educated.

It isn’t about education. There was no Internet to look things up back then. I am in my 40s and wrote in the print sheet at a very early age. We were up at middle-class living in Texas and Colorado.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 14:16     Subject: Re:Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
My DS who is 19 started at around 14.5. DS2 is still in the back (13). I'll probably let him switch soon, but he hasn't asked so I'll wait until he does. We have a big car that's comfortable in the back, he probably likes the "chauffeur effect"
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 14:14     Subject: Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote:13 is safest. That's what I did for my kids. Though many children at my kids' school ride in the front starting at age 5, which is the law in our state. It's ridiculous watching them drive by, seat belts across their necks because they are so small.

Many of these same parents also self congratulate on their restrictions on "junk food" and "screens". Idiots.




Wow! What state?
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 14:13     Subject: Re:Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am 35 and I wasn’t allowed to sit in the front until the age of 12. This is not a new rule.


I wonder when it started?
I am 43 and remember riding in the front seat as young as 4 years old.


I'm 54 and wasn't allowed to sit in the front seat until I was a teenager--ergo 13. So it started a long time ago if your parents were educated.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 14:10     Subject: Re:Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote: I allowed my children to sit in the front seat when they were in the fifth grade. However that was just for short drives like from the school to my house or from my house to the grocery store. Highway drives they were in the backseat.

This. Less than 2 miles to the grocery store and the speed limit is 25. No problem letting my 12 year old sit up front.
Longer drives they are in the back.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 14:06     Subject: Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
It only is party about size but bone structor and growth and that has nothing to do with size.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 13:49     Subject: Re:Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am 35 and I wasn’t allowed to sit in the front until the age of 12. This is not a new rule.


I wonder when it started?
I am 43 and remember riding in the front seat as young as 4 years old.


I'm 38 and also did not ride in the front seat until 12 or 13. I was one of the few kids at my school not riding in the front seat, which was quite embarrassing, but my father insisted I not sit in the "death seat."


I am 41 and was not allowed to ride in the front seat until I was 12.


43 year old poster here again.
Now that I think about it, it was probably whenever airbags started to come out in cars. I know my parents didn't have a car with airbags until well after I was an adult.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 13:39     Subject: Re:Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
I have put my 9yo in front seat twice when we had too many kids and once when I bought some furniture and had to fold down back seat. I have a 7 passenger suv so it is rare that he would need to go in front.

They are guidelines. I don’t see him sitting in front if there is room in back.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 11:37     Subject: Re:Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am 35 and I wasn’t allowed to sit in the front until the age of 12. This is not a new rule.


I wonder when it started?
I am 43 and remember riding in the front seat as young as 4 years old.


I'm 38 and also did not ride in the front seat until 12 or 13. I was one of the few kids at my school not riding in the front seat, which was quite embarrassing, but my father insisted I not sit in the "death seat."


I am 41 and was not allowed to ride in the front seat until I was 12.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 11:33     Subject: Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
13 is safest. That's what I did for my kids. Though many children at my kids' school ride in the front starting at age 5, which is the law in our state. It's ridiculous watching them drive by, seat belts across their necks because they are so small.

Many of these same parents also self congratulate on their restrictions on "junk food" and "screens". Idiots.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 11:25     Subject: Re:Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am 35 and I wasn’t allowed to sit in the front until the age of 12. This is not a new rule.


I wonder when it started?
I am 43 and remember riding in the front seat as young as 4 years old.


I'm 38 and also did not ride in the front seat until 12 or 13. I was one of the few kids at my school not riding in the front seat, which was quite embarrassing, but my father insisted I not sit in the "death seat."
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 11:14     Subject: Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mine didn’t sit in the front until they were tall enough for
The belt to fit properly. In both cases that was past age 13.


I am confused--it is the same belt in front and back, right? So what did they do un til 13+ in the backseat?



It is not the seat belt, it is the air bag deploying. The reason why car seats, even in reverse, is not suppose to go in the front seat is because of the force of impact from the air bags.


PP here. the airbag is the reason I don't let my 12 year old sit in the front. But the first poster said it was because of the seatbelt, not the air bag. Unless you are the first poster, in which case, the positioning of the seatbelt still doesn't make sense.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 11:10     Subject: Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If only there were experts who could help settles this...

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/on-the-go/Pages/Car-Safety-Seats-Information-for-Families.aspx

Yeah 13 for front seat regardless of weight. It's a bone and muscle development thing.

I see so many folks discarding booster seats at 8, and their kids don't fit properly in the seat belts. I don't get why these parents are so stupid. Might as well be anti-vax, it's the same principal.


Actually, it's not. It's the same principle.


It's neither. Not vaxxing your child causes harm to the community. Not restraining your child properly only hurts your child. Not the same things AT ALL.


Until the child is seriously injured in an accident and now the community has to provide special schooling, social security payments for life based on disability, and potentially medical expenses. All of which effect the community.

I don't understand how people fail to see how people miss the larger communal implications of pregnancies, car accidents, drug use and the like. They very rarely affect only the family involved. There is a large ripple through the community due to serious car accidents that leave anyone seriously injured. A family that chooses to not put a child in a booster seat or let the child ride in the front seat too early or doesn't use seat belts has a higher probability of suffering a serious injury or dying which will impact the community.

Wear your darn seat belt. Make your kid wear their seat belt. Make your kid sit in a booster seat and the back seat until they are old enough to not need those restrictions. The whining is far less annoying then visiting the hospital, or god forbid a cemetery, because you are being a responsible adult and telling your kid to sit in the booster seat.


It is ludicrous to propose that an individual child's injury is comparable to the effects of unleashing a communicable disease on a community.

Do you say the same thing about people who eat too much, people who don't exercise, people who exercise too much, people who don't wear their helmets while biking, people who climb mountains without safety gear, people who ride motorcycles, people who jaywalk etc etc etc. Basically any risk that anyone takes while living their life could fall into the type of thing you're talking about.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 11:09     Subject: Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Mine didn’t sit in the front until they were tall enough for
The belt to fit properly. In both cases that was past age 13.


I am confused--it is the same belt in front and back, right? So what did they do un til 13+ in the backseat?



It is not the seat belt, it is the air bag deploying. The reason why car seats, even in reverse, is not suppose to go in the front seat is because of the force of impact from the air bags.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2019 11:06     Subject: Do kids really not sit in the front seat until 13?
Anonymous wrote:Mine didn’t sit in the front until they were tall enough for
The belt to fit properly. In both cases that was past age 13.


I am confused--it is the same belt in front and back, right? So what did they do un til 13+ in the backseat?