Posted on 03/21/2011 12:07:48 PM PDT by Immerito
CHICAGO — Children should ride in rear-facing car seats longer, until they are 2 years old instead of 1, according to updated advice from a medical group and a federal agency.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued separate but consistent new recommendations Monday.
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Here's a novel idea. How about let the PARENTS decide what level of safety precautions they will take for their own children?
I don’t know how my kids survived me!
So if I have a two seat car or pickup truck am I allowed to transport the kiddies in a car seat?
Oh dear God. Where are the kids going to put their FEET? Remember a while back these safety idiots claiming that even teenagers needed to sit in booster seats?
Leftists believe that enough laws, the right COMBINATION of laws will insure that no one EVER dies of anything except abortion and euthanasia when they cease to be of use to the collective.
This is dumb. Most children can barely fit in rear-facing car seats at age 1.
You're dead?
How the hell can they reach the steering wheel if they’re facing BACKWARDS?
OMG! Where’s the law to make us safe?
Everybody panic!
And spend lots and lots of stimulus money! Quick! Quick!
We’re all gonna die!
Yes, I think it was up to 80 or 100 pounds. Which reminds me, I should call my petite friend who fluctuates between 80 to 90 pounds. She's 63 today. I guess she should be in a booster seat too.
/johnny
My son was 36” tall and weighed about 40 lbs when he was 2 years old.
Maybe those old supertanker-sized station wagons with the rear-facing back seat were onto something besides making kids carsick. (Well, they always made me carsick.)
}:-)4
This is just information, not a mandate. As parent, and a grandparent, let me be the first to say that as parents we don't decide the level of safety precautions we will take for our own children in the dark. We use information like this to make our determinations, and it's welcome.
The “there ought to be a law” folks are at it again.
Of course, they don’t say anything about keeping pregnant women away from Planned Parenthood, now do they?
Silly hypocrites.
Heck, I don't know how I survived childhood. When I was a kid in the 1970s, my Mom kept the front seat belts in her car fastened across the seats (i.e., not over the passengers) to avoid the annoying noise the car made if they were undone.
I’d love for them to show photos of even 50th percentile children of 12-24 months, showing how they would fit into a rear-facing child seat. Not to mention how parents are supposed to get them in and out (such as when sleeping). It’s a back-breaking contortionist exercise already.
When I was a kid (way back when), my parents didn’t even dream of using the seat belts in the car. When they were forced to put on the brakes or stop suddenly my brother and I just sort of rolled around in the interior of the car! We managed to survive somehow.
And birds are safest when kept in cages...
As it is its ludicrous that most states mandate children be in saftey seats until they are 8 years old or older.
Safest way to survive an automobile accident is to not be in one, so lets just ban automobiles and be done with it.
....and such information is very often written as law, sooner or later.
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