Date: 8/12/2012 9:16:00 PM
From Authorid: 64365
I'm all for keeping a child safe in every way possible. What these people who make these kinds of laws don't understand is that the tests were conducted on crash dummies, not actual humans...so what keeps a crash dummy safe doesn't necessarily mean it's going to keep a human safe...and a lot of children are a lot bigger than their age. My Beechie is. At 2 she looked more like 4, and at 4 she is the size of a 6 or 7 year old. Usually there's a weight limit exception on stuff like this.  |
Date: 8/13/2012 1:43:00 AM
From Authorid: 37843
Is there a weight/height limit on this? Like a kid has to be 8 years old or 4'9" to not need a booster seat so would that work with this? I think a two year old would be a bit big to ride in a rear facing car seat. Is this a national law or just NC? I don't like rear facing car seats in the first place because you can't keep an eye on the baby as easily as you can when they are facing forward, I understand the safety reasons for it, but I still don't like it.  |
Date: 8/13/2012 8:08:00 AM
From Authorid: 64819
Parents to keep their toddlers in rear-facing car seats until age 2 or until they reach the maximum height and weight for their seat.
So there is a height a weight limit for it. But we still don't like it.  |
Date: 8/13/2012 11:18:00 AM
From Authorid: 10722
Not to mention it's not any safer at all than forward facing.  |
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Date: 8/14/2012 5:47:00 AM
From Authorid: 66273
My daughter is now 5 but when she was 2 there's no way she would have fit in a rear facing child seat. She is tall for her age so it may have not applied to her. I suppose it is safer but certainly not comfortable. But her safety is far more important than her comfort. RoXyRaVeNouS |
Date: 8/14/2012 2:03:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
Law? that's new, I knew the APA updated their recommendations to two years.
That being said I kept child #2 and #3 rear facing til almost two years, and will with #4 as well, provided he isn't a giant. I'm also one of the crazies who kept my oldest in a 5pt seat until 7.5 (And I could have longer because of the seat limits, but let her switch to a booster at that point....made things easier having a newborn)...  |
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Date: 8/14/2012 2:07:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
BTW "Rear" Seats aren't necessarily the infant carriers. There are convertible seats that can face forward or backward. Just mentioning since so many say there's no way their child would fit. There's no way ours would fit in an infant seat for that long, usually by about 8 months they were switched to a convertible. The exception being #2 (who was OFF the charts she was so small) Stayed in the infant seat a little more than a year... |
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Date: 8/15/2012 5:23:00 AM
From Authorid: 66273
Like I said, my daughter is tall. I don't remember how tall she was when she was 2 but I'm sure even with a regular car seat facing rear, her knees would have been scrunched up. I live in NC and I would say the weight limit probably eleviates this entire issue. RoXyRaVeNouS. |
Date: 8/23/2012 7:27:00 PM
From Authorid: 4144
my granddaughter is 3-1/2 and she is at the height limit for a booster. she has a booster in her moms car but in mine she's still in a carseat that buckles in 3 different ways! its a huge seat and it sits in the middle of the backseat. theres no way should have stayed rear facing after age 1. shes too tall!  |
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