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This is off topic but since you mentioned it....

....I really hate that my granddaughter MUST sit in that bolster seat and always in the back seat.

Or does she really HAVE to sit on that seat? She’s four years old, 48 inches tall I think as she can get on certain rides requiring that height. She weights about 40 pounds.

I’d sure love to have her in the front with me and I curse everytime about a government that intrudes CONSTANTLY in our lives.

I just got a $400 ticket because my 1st grader was not in a car seat (he was belted in, in the back seat).

I’m in CA and I didn’t realize the law had changed in between my 3rd and 4th children. It’s now age 6 or 60 lbs.

Since I got the ticket I read there is no difference in death rates from accidents of a 5 yr old who are belted in with no booster vs. belted in with a booster.

I hate the nanny state!

I know that car seats can be a huge hassle...but trust me, unless you have airbags in the front that you can turn off (or have a seat sensor that automatically cuts the airbags off due to low/no weight in the front passenger seat) then she is safer in the back seat. In a small front end impact (think your average fender bender) you could have your bags deploy...even the newer models still come out with a fair amount of impact (enough to hurt a small child...remember she would be at the level of the lower portion of the bag.)

# Children under the age of 8 must be secured in an appropriate child restraint system, more commonly called a safety seat. Child safety seats include infant seats, convertible seats (rear-facing for infants and forward-facing for toddlers) and booster seats that are used with the vehicle lap shoulder belt system. The parent or legal guardian of a child under the age of eight years is responsible for providing a child safety seat to anyone who transports his or her child.

# Children weighing more than 40 pounds may be transported in the back seat of a motor vehicle while wearing only a lap belt if the back seat is not equipped with a lap and shoulder belt system.

# Children ages 8 years of age or older but under the age of 16 must be secured in a properly adjusted safety belt in any position in the vehicle.

The thinking is that the front seat air bag could cause serious injury, or they would too easily slip through the safety belt and either hit their heads on the window, dash or slip under the belt and end up on the floor in an injured heap.

Better safe than sorry.