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Booster Car Seat Question
Any booster high-back car seats youd recommend? Or Recommend to stay away from.
We need to get two for our 3 year old....who is about 33 lbs. And for some reason buying convertible car seats was a lot easier then this is. I cannot seem to find one i like. Has to be a 5-point harness.
Thanks
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Re: Booster Car Seat Question
We will likely be getting the Graco Nautilus next year when the baby moves to E's MyRide.
I've heard great things about them and they aren't overly $$ either.
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Graco Nautilus
Britax Frontier 85
Recaro ProSport
** These are arranged by price. All are really good seats. The Nautilus works better for smaller framed kids, the Frontier for bigger (is is A LOT bigger than the Nautilus). Evidently, the Nautilus does not always make a good regular booster, so when it comes to that time you will want to check for proper fit on your child.
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No.. not at all. The Graco Nautilus is a 5pt that can turn into a booster later on (much much later in our house, like, high school
)
You'd be surprised at all the little kids that I see in boosters.
I recently won a booster on a giveaway, and here is what the manual said.....
"To use this restraint a child must be of 30lbs, 34" and one year of age".
No joke. This wasn't even a high back booster, just a regular old booster. Its no wonder that I see 2 year olds in booster seats.
We have the Evenflo Maestro for our 4 year old who is 38 pounds and 43 (??) inches. (maybe taller, that doesn't seem quite right) I think it's super ugly but it's easy to get a really good fit on him since he's really tall but super skinny. It fits really well in our car. I can get that sucker so it doesn't move a millimeter. I like that it's not ridiculously huge for our tiny little car and that it was only $80 or so.
We were some of those people that had our 3 year old in a high back booster. He fit the size requirements on the box but after reading around I realized that it wasn't the safest thing for him so it's in the basement now until he's older. (still probably a few years away) We went by what the box said and saw that it had good ratings. I didn't think we were ill informed but even with someone who reads, we screwed up. Luckily we found out the easy way and were able to get him a better seat. I wouldn't be so quick to judge those who don't use car seats properly. There's not really a lot of info that I've ever seen. You'd think this would be all over the car seat aisles, TV commercials, billboards, etc. Nope. Even the box can be misleading. If it weren't for the nest I wouldn't know that the recommendations on the box weren't the safest.
I agree that part of the responsibility falls on the car seat company. You wouldn't see that many kids in boosters if the box had better requirements. Also, I don't believe Nebraska even has a booster law. It just says that children up to age 6 must ride in some sort of child seat.
If they put 4 and 40lbs on the box, then that would eliminate some of the confusion.
I agree with this. But, I would go further to say that legislation in the US should catch up and update their archaic recommendations, especially on the booster seat situation and sitting with just a seatbelt. Safety tests do not lie when they show a booster and the impact on a small child. Pediatricians should be pushing recommendations (ours does) and companies should be changing their literature.