When it comes to booster seat safety, it can be difficult to know where to turn for help. Different states have different laws about child restraints. Different brands of car seats offer a variety of both necessary and unnecessary features, and you may not know which ones are the most important for your child’s particular [...]

In a perfect world, you’d have an array of tasty, healthy snacks prepared for car travel every single day. Not only that, but they’d be things your kids adore, too. Homemade fruit chips. Whole grain cereal in perfectly sized baggies. An emergency peanut butter sandwich or two.
Of course, in real life, most of us are [...]

Offering a little friendly neighbor support can be a bit tricky in this day and age – especially when it comes to carpools and car seats.
When we were kids, it was easy for our parents to save money and consolidate travel time by befriending the neighbor with the biggest minivan. Taking one more kid to [...]

It’s become fairly standard knowledge that children aged 8 and under must practice booster seat or car seat safety in order to comply with local driving laws. Most of us have become accustomed to the laws and do our best to keep our children safe, regardless of whether we’re traveling home from the grocery store [...]

When I announced last summer that I was heading off on a road trip for ten days, I wasn’t surprised at the reaction: Shock. Concern. Worry. Even pursed lips and a shake of the head.
Surprised? I wasn’t. It was a pretty crazy idea for a single mom with two kids to have. Six days in [...]

“Come to the bathroom, we’re leaving soon.”
That’s my standard statement before making any trip with my youngest child, barely out of toddlerhood. It’s not a request, either. I’m not asking if she has to go. I’m telling her that she needs to take care of business before leaving, whether she likes it or not. [...]

Booster seats can be a point of contention between kids and their parents. Toddlers often feel that they’re too grown-up for carseats anymore – and they are! They may see the booster seat as just one more thing separating them from their older siblings or from their grown-up parents.
One way to get around this problem [...]

We’ve talked before about fun car games you can play with your child, but on longer road trips, even the most enjoyable games wear a little thin – for both you and your booster seat-bound toddler!
Thankfully, my children and I have come up with a game that never gets old, because it’s always different every [...]

I don’t know about your kids, but mine don’t much like to sit still for long periods of time – and they definitely don’t like being confined. Many children don’t like the feeling of being strapped into their booster seats, and they’ll try to wiggle out. In some cases, they even figure out how the [...]

The short answer is that booster seats can definitely be dangerous without the proper equipment. The booster seat and the three-point seatbelt don’t combine well; the design of a three-point belt works with the design of a booster seat to allow slack in the portion of the belt that runs across your child’s lap.
In simple [...]