These recommendations, like many others for parents, are not based on the real world. In parts of the country where outside temps can be below zero and where many of us dont have garages for our cars, Im not going to take the coat off my child, even if Ive been warming up the car, since all that warmth disappears when I open the door and the breeze blows it out. If I had one child in a carrier, I might be able to do this by wrapping the child indoors. But like most of this kind of advice, it doesnt envision multiple children of various ages needing various levels of assistance. The question that needs to be asked is what are the real numbers of children who have been injured by supposedly insufficiently tight straps because of puffy coats? Then I want to compare that against the risk of the child being exposed to real winter cold. As a society, weve become unrealistically paranoid about risk, piling burdens on parents such that it becomes impossible to follow if you have more than 1 or 2 children. P.S. The whole strap-em-in, take-off-the-coat, re-strap-them, see-how-much-slack-there-is routine is typical of this ridiculousness. Yes, theres slack because youve taken the bulk of the coat out! Anyone whos wrestled a winter-coat-clad child into a seat belt knows the damn things dont compress that much.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:29:11 +0000
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