August 2008
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Car Seat Ratings - Car Seat Safety Quiz
There is a really good Car Seat Safety Quiz on About.com in their pediatrics section. Give it a try!
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Ease Of Use Car Seat Ratings
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has an interesting video and section on Ease of Use Car Seat Ratings for 2008. You can find the website here.
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Car Seat Ratings - Car Seat Timeline
I took a look at Consumer Reports to see if they have posted their latest Car Seat Ratings article, but it seems thay haven’t.
I did find this Consumer Report’s article on how to determine when you need to move up to the next size car seat.
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Car Seat Ratings - On YouTube!!!!
Check this out - people are posting car seat ratings and reviews on YouTube. The are actually pretty cool. They go through each of the features and capabilities of the car seat. You get to see what they are talking about. Here is an example. Make sure you look at the other similar videos on the right hand side.
I am constantly amazed at the amount of information that you can find out there!
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Phenominal Car Seat Ratings Forum
If you are looking for car seat ratings, or just general information on car seats, check out this online forum - www.car-seat.org. It has every thing you would ever want to know (and stuff you really NEED to know) about car seats. No B.S. just great information.
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S.E.A.T.S - not car seat ratings, but car seat...
I am going to take a break from talking about car seat ratings to talk about something else that is really important to me. I am really happy to see that more and more communities are getting together to create programs to check car seats. Check out this article on a program in Reno, NV called S.E.A.T.S. (Safety Education and Training Services). We don’t have anything like that here, but I...
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Car Seat Ratings - cont.
I have some more Car Seat Ratings info. While looking at the NHTSA site, I found a link that shows Car Seat recall notices, and Customer Complaints. You can find it here.
-Mike
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Car Seat Ratings - a cautionary tale
“You’re an idiot…” she said.
Ok… already this conversation was not going the way I expected it to go.
It started innocently enough. My very pregnant wife and I were sitting at our kitchen table, she, reading the local paper, and me, trying to balance the checkbook in Quicken. She looked up at me and said, “Don’t you think it’s time to start looking for a car seat?
Now, in the six years...