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Walau eh.....catastrophic failure from an expensive $600 child seat. Hope no MCFers bought this seat. https://www.smh.com.au/national/expensive-children-s-car-seat-catastrophically-fails-test-ejects-dummy-20200303-p546hu.html

Just watching Crash Test Dummies on Discovery Science. Shows how dummies are used to make cars safer. Made me recall seeing some adult front seat passengers in cars with a baby or toddler carried in their lap. They don't realise...(cannot be don't care right?) how dangerous it can be if the car rear ends the vehicle in front or driver e brakes....the child could be launched forward by the momentum and crash into the windscreen. Child seats are also life savers...i suggest parents be more strict with their children when it comes to seat belts. Even for short drive to school less than 2km away, I insist my kids put on their seat belts. You can be the safest driver in the world, but there are many who are reckless or bobo.

Hi Need some advice from bros... I have a kid about 2 years old and another one coming soon. Thinking of buying a new car, preferably an SUV. What I would like to know how to place the child seats (one front facing and one rear facing), bearing in mind the car needs to seat 3 more adults (me, my wife and maid)? If I prefer not to place any child seat in the front passenger or the third row seats, it seems like my only choice is to place them on the second row seats but that would pretty much take up the second row middle seat too. The maid will have to go to third row, which is fine. But would I have to then to remove the child seat at the entry point everytime I need to fold the second row car seat to let her in and out?? How do the rest of you do it?

Keeping little ones facing rearward and in their infant seats well past their first birthday, and perhaps into toddlerdom, will help keep them safe and sound. The conventional advice was that you should transition kids into a forward-facing seat at just one year. But based on new research and updated recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the new recommendation is that parents should keep toddlers in rear-facing car seats until age 2 or until they reach the maximum height and weight for their seat. The decision follows a 2007 study from the journal, Injury Prevention, that first suggested rear-facing seats for children under the age of 2 bring a 75-percent lower chance of death or severe injury compared to front-facing seats. "A rear-facing child safety seat does a better job of supporting the head, neck and spine of infants and toddlers in a crash, because it distributes the force of the collision over the entire body," said Dr. Dennis Durbin, the lead author of the policy paper. According to Durbin, parents should wait until a child has fully outgrown the rear-facing seat before placing him or her in the booster seat. Depending on the child's relative size, some parents might want to make the transition to forward-facing seats before 2 years old, while others might wait even longer. Children should ride in a booster seat until they are 4'-9" tall and between 8 and 12 years of age, recommends the APP. In addition, kids should always ride in the back seat until they are at least 13 years old, and under no situation should a baby or child seat be placed in the front seat.