Car Seat Safety Tips

Safety standards are protection and primary features all car seats must provide to users. However, sometimes even they are not enough to prevent accidents, injuries, and fatalities.

For this reason, we have listed the best car seat safety tips to raise awareness among parents and teach them how to use the child restraint systems on the road properly. Find all critical information below. 

What are car seat safety tips?

Car seat safety tips are advice, various methods, and techniques child safety experts provide parents. The plans include multiple steps for the proper installation process, what parents must/mustn’t do while on the road, how to raise safety standards and similar guidelines. 

In addition, the experts include multiple pieces of advice for pregnant women and various syndromes in children, such as seat belt syndrome, tips for motion sickness, car seat inspection services, and other reliable tricks to keep your little ones safe and sound on the road. 

The most reliable sources also consider car deaths and tips to prevent them, so parents must be cautious whenever their children are in motor vehicles. 

Are safety tips mandatory for all parents? 

Safety tips are mandatory for parents to improve safety precautions on the road, keep the kids secure, and prevent the slightest possibility of injuries. They might not be obligatory as car seat laws; however, disrespecting the guidelines will have severe consequences. 

Experts and manufacturers always suggest you follow the precise NHTSA, AAP, IIHS, and FMVSS to see how to correctly use and install car seats, what to do/never do on the road, and other guidelines. Otherwise, you will put your children in danger. 

Are car seat safety tips beneficial?

Car seat safety tips and tricks are always beneficial to all parents regarding safety and ease of use. The guidelines help keep the youngest ones secure in motor vehicles and ensure parents easily use and adjust their child restraint systems.

In addition, the info teaches parents where to look for additional details, which institutions and officials to inquire about, and how to add more protection for kiddos in cars.

If you need more details on each topic separately, please refer to the articles below, examine them thoroughly, and find all crucial factors before setting off on the road.

What is the Best Car Seat Airport Carrier for Effortless Transport?

by Kathy Warner
Car Seat Airport Carrier

You read our article on flying with children, realized that it's the best to fly with a car seat, and now it's time to figure out how the heck to transport a car seat to the airplane.

Honestly, you will need to seriously step up your creativity, space management and arm yourself with patience. Once you're stuck at the airport gate with your kids, luggage, and now a car seat on top of everything, oh boy, that will take time.

But hey, all parents are superheroes, right?

Don't worry, Clark Kent, I have your back. By the usual trial and mistake method, I figured out the most efficient car seat airport carrier. Additionally, to help the community, I composed a list of the 5 best ways to transport your car seat to the airplane.

So, make a cup of coffee and figure it all out!

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Everything You Need To Know About Flying With A Car Seat Safely

by Kathy Warner
flying with a car seat

A kid's wellbeing is the number one priority of every responsible parent. However, transportation of any kind carries a certain degree of risk, which parents are never willing to take.

Regulations and policies concerned with this matter are continuously changing and updating. Sometimes, it is hard to follow the advisable thing when traveling with a child.

In this informative text, you may find all the essential information on the best ways to accommodate a child in a plane safely. If you have done some research yourself, you're probably considering flying with a car seat; and you're going in the right direction. 

While holding a child in your lap is a legitimate form of child accommodation on aircraft, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends mandatory restraints of children younger than two years.

To choose the safest option possible for your toddler, keep reading and get familiar with FAA and NTSB regulations, learn how to fly with a car seat safely, and what the other recommended alternatives are.

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Introduction to Becoming a Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician

by Kathy Warner
Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician

The Standardized Child Passenger Safety Training Program was created in 1998 to establish quality control in child passenger safety course content and instruction. While Washington is fortunate to have more than 400 Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians, there is still a significant need in both large and small communities to have more trained people with the interest and the time to help parents, grandparents and other caregivers learn how to keep children safe in cars.

Child Passenger Safety Certification classes are usually 3-4 days. Certification courses combine classroom instruction with hands-on exercises. Each course concludes with a community car seat check-up event where new technicians teach caregivers how to properly install and use car seats and booster seats.

Persons who successfully complete this course receive national certification as a Child Passenger Safety Technician through Safe Kids Worldwide (the certifying body of the program). Child Passenger Safety Certification is recognized everywhere in the United States, its territories and on non-domestic U.S. military installations.

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Car Seat Fitting & Installing Instructions

by Kathy Warner
Car Seat Fitting & Installing

Fit & Installation

Just as every child is a different shape and size, so are vehicles. Certain car seats fit better in some vehicles more than others. What fits your neighbor’s vehicle may not fit yours. This is why we don’t encourage using second-hand seats.

It’s important you select a car seat that will accommodate your child’s growth needs, fits tightly in your vehicle and is easy to use. See the “Car Seats & Boosters” section for help choosing a car seat.

Below are tips on proper fit and installation of a car seat.

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All You Need to Know About Buckling Up in One Place

by Kathy Warner
buckling up

Buckling Up Older Kids

Is your child ready for a seat belt?

One of the most common questions parents have is “When can my child ride in the car using just the adult seat belt?” Whether parents ask what is the law or what is safest for their child, our answer is always the same: “When the adult seat belt fits properly." That happens when you can answer YES to all five of these questions:

  • Does the child sit all the way back against the auto seat?
  • Do the child's knees bend comfortably at the edge of the auto seat without slouching?
  • Does the shoulder belt cross the center of the shoulder and chest?
  • Does the lap belt fit low and snugly across the hips—touching the tops of the thighs—not up over the abdomen?
  • Can the child stay seated like this for the whole trip?

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