Installing a car seat is much like a "Choose your own Adventure" book from the eighties and nineties...are you still with me? If not, these books allowed you to take different paths to arrive at multiple endings, both good and bad. This is similar to the choices you take during a car seat installation. Let me stop here and say, 'With proper instruction you can learn the right choices and arrive at a great ending" .
Each step leads to a choice and that path leads to another. Eventually, you can arrive at a conclusion, but in this real-life adventure your particular ending can look and feel good, but still be wrong. Like the books you can have more than one good ending, but these endings don't happen by accident.
Both seat belt and LATCH installations can be correct in certain...
situations. Both middle and outboard (window) positionings can be correct in certain vehicles. Finally, certain children and seats can face forward and towards the rear and both be correct depending on every parents unique situation.
It’s becoming clearer these days that parents get different stories at every turn and often get too frustrated to press on. The best way to know if you child, seat and vehicle fit together is to consult a certified technician. If you're in Chicago, give us a call.
(originally posted 07/28/07
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