How long should my child ride rear facing? What about ages for other seats?

Here's an even newer blog with all the AAP recommendations from 2011... http://carseatblog.com/9416/confused...ns-start-here/

http://carseatblog.com/?p=5168

This is a great article in carseatblog with all kinds of links showing why it's safer to rear face long beyond the bare minimum of age 1 and at least 20 pounds.


Here's a chart for how long a child should ride in a seat of each type (.pdf) http://www.carseat.org/Resources/651_Basic.pdf

How long in a booster? http://carseatblog.com/?p=3966 Discusses the oft-mentioned Five Step Test for seatbelt readiness.

What if my car doesn't have head restraints? Do I still need a booster for whiplash protection? Yep, Britax Frontier/85 is by far the tallest out there, check this out, even though the car does have headrests... http://carseatblog.com/?p=5671

Yay! Thank you for posting this.

BTW, I was the one who posted that DH wasn't convinced. Well, when I mentioned that we could tether the RA and MA, he said, "I've already given in on that. We don't need to discuss it anymore." So I guess score one for me (and for DD). Then on Monday DD's ped said to keep her RF.

So there. :)

Cool. Just put it on my facebook. :)

I saw this on car-seat.org this morning and put it on my FB status right away. :)

Thanks, just posted to my FB too!

Awesome, thanks! Just posted on Facebook too!

Oh thanks! That is great!

I hardly ever post on FB, but this prompted me to!

AWESOME. :jammin:

Awesome! Thank you, Heather (murphydog77), for writing the article, and Julie, for posting the link here.