Do you use a backless booster for your DC?

[KpbS]

Curious if you use a low-back booster (backless) for your elementary age child.
Poll coming

[ABO Mama]

Our almost 2nd graders are still in 5pts, but have gone once or twice in DH's truck in lowback boosters. They're more comfortable in their big chairs (and they know it's the safer option for them, and wonder why other kids at school aren't in carseats).

[rlu]

DS is in a harness but we have a backless we keep in the car for other kids if carpooling. DS uses a backless at MIL's.

[Beth24]

8YO DD is in a backless booster full time. She is going into 3rd grade and claims she is the only one in her class who still has to use a car seat. She is 53 inches tall.

[Kyras mom]

My 7 1/2 yo DD has high-back boosters in both cars. We use the Parkway (HBB) for carpooling and field trips.

[o_mom]

DS1 uses a backless rarely. I have enough highback boosters that I can almost always make sure he is in one. He is on the smaller side at almost 8 and still fits in our harnessed seats when I need him to (we have a spot in the van that really needs a harnessed seat because of the belt). DS2 is still too small for me to consider a backless unless it was a real emergency (zombie apocalypse).

[RunnerDuck]

My son is 7 1/2 and has been in a backless booster for about a year. He's really tall ... he kept complaining about the back on his booster and one day I realized it was positioning the belt below his shoulder even at the highest setting. So he's backless. When my girls move out of their marathons later this year they will get Frontiers, I have no clue what will happen with them as far as moving to backless. I know they go taller than the Graco but we will have to see how things are when they are 6-7...

[MrsZaz]

My older DS is 9 (54") and has a HBB that he rides in the majority of the time. Occassionally he will go places with my mom (once or twice a month) and she has a backless booster for him. My other DS (6 almost 7) rides in a Regent in my car.

Colleen

[KrisM]

Our almost 2nd graders are still in 5pts, but have gone once or twice in DH's truck in lowback boosters. They're more comfortable in their big chairs (and they know it's the safer option for them, and wonder why other kids at school aren't in carseats).

Unless they have special needs that prevent them from sitting properly in a booster, there is no evidence that a child over 5 who is able to sit properly in a booster is any safer in a harnessed seat. Most 2nd graders should be in a booster, but not necessarily harnessed.


My DS1 is 7 and is in a highback in both cars. I do have a lowback that he rode in a couple time last year, but that's it.

[mom2khj]

8YO DD is in a backless booster full time. She is going into 3rd grade and claims she is the only one in her class who still has to use a car seat. She is 53 inches tall.