Car seats are the worst part of having kids. And it doesn’t make it any better that statistically after the age of 2 they do nothing to improve safety vs. a traditional seatbelt. No decrease in fatality in accidents or severity of injuries. We just have to keep using them because Chico, Greco etc. lobby our governments to require them.
This article mentions fatality rate 18.2 for seat belt vs. 18.1 for car seat. https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnew...nting/child-safety-car-seats/story?id=8867880 I use to have more data back when I worked at a property & casualty company. I’m an actuary and the data we got from the NHTSA showed the same. But I left that company 8 years ago.
I haven’t looked at safety ratings in years but it was the highest rated for safety when had our first kid. I’ve been very happy with them.
I remember when this board first started, and most of us were in college. I was at my friend's son's first birthday party last weekend, and it was kind of depressing. I was basically the only one without a wife or kid. There were more juice boxes getting downed than beers.
No. I did the research before our first was born. The Britax was better because they use metal in the frame versus some of the competitors that use rigid plastics. The trade-off is the Britax tend to be larger and heavier. When we had our 3rd we had to switch to smaller seats that could fit 3 across. We had to go to a higher end store and test a bunch of seats in the parking lot to see what would fit. At that point, marginal safety differences were secondary to not buying a new vehicle.
All car seats meet the minimum level of safety required by the government. Everything extra you’re paying for is looks/brand/extra features/usability. Don’t overthink it. Go to a store and just mess around with car seats and strollers and find something you like and will work with each other. Car seats are literally just plastic shells with straps
Find an actual study proving this, not a stat from freakonomocs or this is complete and utter horseshit. I can’t imagine saying this to other parents.
Anyone else have kids in school with a stomach bug going around? Little man had some diarrhea yesterday and just really fussy. He’s fine now but at like 4:30 today my wife and I both just got hit like a ton of bricks. I’m talking projectile vomiting and peeing out my butthole. May get a pants shitting story out of this. I felt great all day. Went for a run at lunch and everything but it hit us both pretty much at the same time.
Before COVID hit very early last year, I got some sort of similar bug or food poisoning. I kept crapping my pants every time I threw up, it was so bad. This started in the late afternoon and I was fine by the next day.
I’m posting from my bathroom floor. Using towels as a pillow and I have a blow dryer on my feet trying to stay warm. I think I’m dying
2.5yo has hand foot mouth. We assumed it was bug bites for the last week as we are outside a lot but wife noticed marks on bottom of her feet tonight. Guess all you can do is let it run its course. Seems likes it’s close to scabbing on some of them so she may be getting to the end of it.
Son just got over it like 2 weeks ago. He was miserable. Never had it visible anywhere but his butt so changing his diaper was a nightmare.
Staying in hotels for the next week or so and my two year old has forced me to the edge of the bed on the first night. This is worse than sharing a bed with my wife. Send Ts and Ps.
Holy fuck has getting my 4 year old to school turned into a nightmare. Every morning is a knock down, drag out battle.
Wife has been talking to 3 yo more about masks, why we where them etc. to prep him for our flight coming up in October. On his own yesterday he said he wanted to wear his mask to school and be like Suzy (only girl in his daycare who wears a mask). I doubt he kept it on too long but still proud of my dude.
I lost my shit this morning after four straight days of refusing to go to school. I’m talking very loudly to him “FINE YOU DONT HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL YOU CAN JUST SIT IN YOUR ROOM ALL DAY LIKE A BABY I HOPE YOU LIKE IT IN HERE BECAUSE YOURE NOT LEAVING UNTIL YOUR BROTHER GETS HOME IM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOUR BEHAVIOR THIS WEEK”. Real mature shit. Great start to the long weekend.
for the first time since we've had 3 kids my wife is going out of town for a few days and I'm on my own. hope these kids like watching college football.
Happened for weeks at different time periods but the stretches where she was so tired shed go to sleep at like 7 PM so I'd have the whole night to myself was the bees knees.
If it's anything like my son's league, every dad that was worth a shit would be out in the field helping the kids know where to stand, where to throw, etc. Then for batting one of the dads stood at home plate helping the kids get lined up and then other dads would help be base coaches. Also, kids were only allowed to go one base at a time and there were no outs or score kept. It was super easy to "coach" and was a good way for the kids to learn the basics.
I've been coaching baseball/basketball/football for like 5 years now and if you know anything about the sport it'll be super easy. Honestly the bigger things are to be positive and energetic and make sure you send out the snack schedule to parents.
Wife and I visited oldest at his university dorm for the first time yesterday, two weeks after moving him in. Took him to lunch and got the scoop on college life, then made a Costco run with him to stock up on food for the dorm suite's kitchen. It's a co-ed suite, and one of the suitemates we met yesterday was a tight little hottie bouncing around in her short shorts and half top and I'm thinking maybe I need to visit more often
I too have given up on this battle when my kid was in day care. Of course I was doing fundraising for a non profit so I’d just drag him around in the car for long drives and he’d help ask for money from business owners I knew. They didn’t mind him there as it was for the Boy Scouts so kids are part of it. But I was close to losing my temper and didn’t want to fight him any longer. Happened maybe five times in his pre K career.