Which car safety seat should you buy?
-
- September
- 18
Car safety seats certainly have improved since the days that kiddie seats were made of flimsy plastic and equipped with a steering wheel and horn. The whole thing was hung over the seatback using two large inverted hooks. I remembered my parents were thrilled when they found a small carriage that could be wedged between the front and rear seats, once the chassis (the carriage’s) was removed. I don’t know how safe it was, but my little brother was able to sleep on my first trip to Niagara Falls many years ago.
The Yonkers-based Consumer Reports is out with its latest assessment of infant safety seats, a review that found 11 of 11 were rated as acceptable. The reports finds a wide range of prices, so unless you are shopping for status in infant seats – one can save money by shopping wisely.
The report also contains an analyses of what went wrong when Consumer Reports issued an earlier review of infant safety seats in Feburary, a report which the non-profit group soon withdrew.
And here’s some additional advice on car seats from my colleague and Parents’ Place blogger Julie Alterio
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 2:49 pm by Len Maniace.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Print
| 
Email
