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Originally Posted by bizaro86
It definitely annoys me when people act like their way is the only way to correctly do things, with absolutely no evidence.
I'd be interested to know what percentage of the people who would be horrified by someone not having a car seat have their car seat installed incorrectly.
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If I had to guess without going over to win a million bucks, I would be picking 90%.
To put this in perspective, I have always consider our car seats to be installed correctly. We did some pre-natal training where they explained it all and another related training afterwards. In addition, our car seats and their installation are inspected yearly by Child and Family Services.
My wife went through a 'car seat' check last year. We failed, IIRC badly on one seat, and minor issues with the other 2. According to the cop, almost everyone who was pulled over (and had car seats) also failed. As an alternative to do paying the fine, she went through some car seat training at the Children's Hospital, where she saw many of her friends from the community who hit the same check stop.
Despite being fairly confident in our use of the car seats, and my complete OCD nature when it comes to this stuff especially since we have Child Services inspect them yearly, she learned a ton about car seats that day. Stuff that was never mentioned in the training we have both been in, or stuff we obviously completely misunderstood.
tl;dr You probably are not using your car seat correctly.