Booster Seats

A booster seat used to mean something a kid could sit on so they would be higher up at the table (usually it was a big telephone book, to tell the truth). Now that kind of seat is called a “feeding booster seats hook on”. Booster seats are now what are required for children fewer than four foot-nine inches to be able to ride in a car. Booster seat regulations state that a child must use a booster sear until they are tall enough to wear seatbelts, at which time the child will be at least fifty seven inches, usually between eight and twelve years of age.

Booster car seat safety ratings are administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA for short. They have developed an A, B, and C rating on several aspects of the car booster seat’s form and function. You can get a more exhaustive report on the ratings and booster seat requirements at the NHTSA’s website.

Some of the most popular child booster seats and some of the features their manufacturers think set them apart follow.

The makers of Graco booster seats are told that kids like their armrests. The kid’s parents like the feature that the booster car seat installs in less than one minute.

The manufacturers of Britax booster seats point out their true side impact protection and a five point harness.

The booster seats that Fisher Price makes feature ease of use, one hand height adjustment, two-position recline adjustment, and that the seat uses the car seatbelts.

The people behind Eddie Bauer offer adjustable high back and a wider seat for extra comfort.

Note: Some safety car booster seats are rated for taking onto airplanes for the child’s use.

Gone are the days of your baby riding in the front seat on Mommy’s lap. The back of a station wagon filled with kids is a thing of the past. Kids piled into the back of a truck in the summertime are just a memory. Of course, safety for children has got to be the dominant theme, and all the picturesque images of a less safety-conscious world can fade into those tear-jerky nostalgia movies. Time marches on, so they say. The kids of today, when they grow up will speak nostalgically of their time of childhood and will pity their own children for what they won’t know about something lost to their generation. That brings to memory the old saying: “T’was ever thus.”