[grundle]

The speaker says that for children 2 and older, seatbelts are just as effective as child safety seats.

[G Larry]

Yes, we knew that....

9 kids in a 59 Plymouth wagon, no seat belts....all lived.

[LegendHasIt]

Seems to me that size, rather than age would be the actual determining factor.

[Slyfox]

Kids need to be in the front seat. That way parents would not forget them in a hot car.

[shanover]

It’s funny the things that we always knew by experience.

[raybbr]

I think my sons appreciated the comfort of those seats. They’re not expensive and the child fits snugly.

[Nifster]

And just who is Stephen Levitt?

[Does so]

For those who’ve never seen it, the video should have elaborated on the newest child-seatbelt design.

I made my own seatbelts before Chevron stations volunteered in 1962, to install them nationally for $5 a seat, total cost.

[walkingdead]

Pay attention to how much plastic there is holding that child car seat to your car belt. Not much. And the gov’t keeps upping the age for getting out of them.

Parents think that since their kid is in a 5 point harness child car seat that it is safer. But if your child is heavy, the plastic in the back of the car seat (that attaches the seat to the seat belt in the car) will fail, and your child will stay safely in their 5 point harness as the whole car seat is ejected from the vehicle.

Best to get kids out of them as soon as they can fit properly in the regular car seat belts. And with the amount of adjustment todays seat belts have, you can get them in properly a lot early than the law says.

Like someone said earlier on in this thread, it is a size thing, not an age thing.

[Durbin]

Once my child’s knees bend over the seat in the car, then my child will no longer need a child seat.

[Mears]

Just toss them in the back of the station wagon like we did with ours-——no problem.

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[NorthstarMom]

I thought the booster seats were to lift the kids up so that the seat belt went across the hips (like it does those over 4’9”) rather than across their bellies so their internal organs would be safer from internal bleeding in the event of an accident. Does he address this?

[Yaelle]

They want toddlers facing the effing SEAT until they are 2! My baby screamed so much in her first year, I turned her around at age one and she was so happy in the car thereafter.

But bigger kids do nap better in these plush seats with head rests made for napping. And they can see out so much better, good for carsick kids.