I really hope that everyone with a child takes the time to read this without judging me for posting it. I know that people get annoyed of my car seat posts, Ive received messages about it, and Im sorry but Im not going to stop any time soon. I worry about my kids in the car, I worry about your kids in the car, and I worry about complete strangers kids in the car. I know how much I enjoy my time with my kids so much and I cant imagine losing them because I turned my head to car seat safety. It makes me sick to see so many people post pictures of their children in car seats buckled improperly, but I feel like there isnt much I can say without more judgement heading my way. Bottom line---I am not a car seat technician and I know I can learn something new every day about the safety of my kids in our cars. What I can do, however, is point you in the right direction. I am part of a GREAT Facebook group full of car seat technicians willing and ready to help. All you have to do is let me know that you would like to be added to the group :) That hostility is yet another example of a puzzling disconnect in the American parental psyche. We live in an undeniable culture of helicopter parenting, in which we will go to extraordinary lengths to shield our kids from even the most remote of possible threats or discomforts. (Wipe warmers, anyone?) We worry about an endless cavalcade of potential dangers, from crib bumpers and BPA to blind cords and arsenic-laced juice boxes. And yet, many parents are bizarrely inattentive, if not downright hostile, to discussion of the single most deadly threat to our childrens safety, and ironically the one perhaps most within our power to actually offset: automobiles.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:15:57 +0000