When starting to booster train begin with shorter trips with a second person in the car to monitor the child the first few times. They can remind them about sitting up straight, not slouching or leaning or repositioning the seatbelt under their arm or behind them. This is also an important tip for adults to remember too, severe injuries can result from an improperly positioned seatbelt in a collision in adults as well. Have the adult always buckle the seatbelt and make sure any slack in the lap portion has been pulled tight
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Re: Clicky: Did you 'booster train' your child when moving to a booster seat?
Amen!
I am a crazy stickler for using a proper restraint and using it correctly but agree with Jodi 100%
yep, who has time to switch out the car seat for booster EVERY time you are going somewhere with another adult who can make sure the kid is sitting right.....insane.
That said, I've had to "remind" all my kids at one point or another about sitting correctly. In fact I had to remind A just this week when she was grumpy, hungry, tired and decided to try and lay down. It resulted in my pulling over until she sat up correctly and re-explaining why sitting up and correctly is important for safety. She's 6 (which I guess in Nest world would still require a 5 pt harness...but, I live in a different world where starting in K, you use a booster....) SOOOOOOOooooooo, I think EVEN if you "booster' trained a kid, they will forget at times....like kids forget EVERY other rule at times.
Nope. Never even heard of it. That said, I did talk with ds about my expectations if he wanted to be moved to a booster seat: he had to understand that it was important to keep the belt in place, not to put it under his arm, not to twist all around in the seat, etc.
We haven't had a problem. I did have to help him the first few times and I still remind him to pull the slack out of the belt that goes across his lap. Granted, he was SEVEN before we moved him into a booster! Up until now he just hasn't met the weight requirements and some people would still consider it iffy for him to be in a booster based on his current weight (he's still probably a year or two away from hitting 40 lbs.)