I NEED A BOOSTER SEAT AND I have no money!!!!!

i am traveling with my 6 year old to cancun Mexico. We are not renting a car and will be using shuttles and cabs. Do i need to bring a booster seat?

I’m 4’11 and I can’t even see the road in the car I am going to get. & What booster seat do I use? Pillows or do I buy one?
I’m not handicap, I’m just short.

i was wondering what the hight and weight for a child is to be put in a booster seat

My son is 6 years old and is about 55 lbs. He keeps bugging me to let him out of his booster seat. I am sick of listening to him complain about it, but I don’t want to get a ticket or have to pay some kind of fine. Know any good websites where I could find laws or guidelines on this subject?

my son is 2 yrs old about 3 1/2 foot tall,and is about 34-35 ibs..he is getting too big for his carseat, when will it be alright to swich him to a booster seat?

my daughter is 2 year old and just reached 30 pounds my car seat says for weight 20-40 pounds. should i start looking for booster seat for he still with a 5 point harness or should i just keep her in this until she is 40 pounds? and her head almost reaches above the top of her car seat but her feet don’t hang over the side yet. or can she still say it this car seat after she reaches 40 pounds? please a little advise please.. no i am not going to take her out of this car seat for a while i just want to know now. of what i should do. i am a first time mom

My daughter needs to move up to a booster seat.
Thanks.

CAR SEAT TO BOOSTER SEAT??
at what age can I do the switch? or what pound?

In Texas is it legal for a child to ride in the front passenger seat IF they have the proper safety/booster seat? If not, than are there exceptions for persons driving a single cab truck?
Or say you have a five seater car and are carrying 4 children that still require the use of safety seats? I know that owners manuals and warnings advise against it but I want to know if there is an actual law regarding it.
Thank you

My son is almost 3.5 years and weighs just over 18 kilos. We have a Safe n Sound Maxi Rider AHR booster seat and he is currently in the 5 point harness, He still has heaps of room in the seat and harness but I know that once they are 18 kilos, you are supposed to have them with just the adult seat belt through the booster seat and stop using the harness.

I know that harnesses are tested to 22 kilos so would it be okay to leave him in the 5 point harness for another couple of kilos? I don’t think it is safe to stop using the harness.

Why on earth doesn’t Australia have car seats where you can use a 5 point harness over 18 kilos? It is completely unsafe.

This is long, bear with me.

My sister watches my nieces 3 children, ages about 9, 7 and 5. Depending on the car they use, they sometimes use boosters and seats but since the 5 year old is pretty big they tend to think they’re not necessary anymore. Okay, so my sister is having a baby and she’s having a lot of trouble and could end up having the baby any moment. When the baby is born we will be watching the kids, possibly for a week, possibly for up to a month or more. My mom and I like to go places, and my mini-van can easily fit everyone, but the car seat question comes up. Both because I don’t want my kids to get the wrong idea about car safety and because it’s safer (not to mention the law in our area says they have to be in a booster or seat until 8.)

So the problem. I KNOW they will not compensate or help me get a booster. They MAY provide us with a booster and seat while they’re here, but I’m not counting on it since I’m not seeing them in boosters very often anymore. My niece is having a divorce with the father right now, and I don’t know if he has the seats or if he’d be willing to let someone else use them. He also has a very aggressive nature towards seats and I don’t know if the seat would be safe anyway.

I DO have an old Britax that my daughter can’t ride backwards in because of the crotch belt being too short for her and having to be in the forward facing position. One of them should fit in that one (it goes up to 63lbs) and then I don’t have anyone using the unsafe lap-belt in the back. I’m pretty sure there are head-rests on the back bench so a basic no-back booster is an option and more affordable.

So the Evenflo Big Kid AMP got the ‘best bet’ for a booster seat a couple of years ago by the IIHS and is on sale for about . I’ve never been pulled over but if I was with these kids then I could be cited for breaking the law since anyone under 8 must be in a booster or carseat depending on age now (and you have to be 4+ for a booster, but they all are.) However, it’s not like I’m planning on taking them a million places either, just to things like SAMS or COSTCO, the library or a playground, now and then, and we could just plan that around the days we don’t have them. Except that we don’t always KNOW the days we won’t have them. And I could just leave my mom home with them, but she gets awfully tired watching them alone and I know everyone would like to get out now and then. My mom may be willing to pay for the booster herself since I have a seat for one of them and that’s basically all we’d need but if she doesn’t… that’s about 1/2 our food budget for a week (but I would feel horrible if one of them was injured and a citation would cost more anyway. But yes, I feed my family of 4 on a week so this isn’t a small purchase.)

So my question is, what would you do? There may be some arguing as well from kids who are used to not using any seats and me being a hard Aunty saying they don’t have a choice. It could also cause some irritation from parents who don’t agree with me (or the law) about boosters and such. (Let’s face it, I’m a nutcase to them anyway since both my kids are rear-facing until 4 or 30lbs, and my daughter is 3 1/2 and is still rear-facing currently so I’m not joking.) Their kids complaining that I make them ride in a booster and when they asked why I explained the safety aspect or the legal aspect would basically be saying their parents are wrong.

Would you just plan on leaving them home? Or would you just get the stupid booster?
Aggressive towards seats = tossing them aside, refusing to use them, etc. I’m sure he’s yelled at them.

As far as worrying about what folks think, yes I do. They don’t tend to leave kids over here because my parents are elderly, and my mom would like them over more often, but my dad has made everyone feel guilty for leaving their kids over at all so it sort of hurts her that she doesn’t get to see them as often.

How much time would I have saved by not asking the question? About 5 minutes. When you grow up, take a typing class.

my daughter is 2 years old she weighs about 39 lbs when can i put her into a booster seat

Just being who I am, I am VERY safety conscious when it comes to children, ESPECIALLY in car seats. My neighbour’s have a three – almost four year old – who is on the larger side for his age. My guess would be 50, maybe closer to 55lbs. He is currently in a car seat that goes up to 40lbs harness, to be specific, a Cosco Scenera. Though this car seat is safe for children rear facing 5-30lbs, and in a harness forward facing until 40lbs, this is NOT safe for him. I know the safer option is to get a car seat that goes up to 65lbs (at least) forward facing, then on to a booster, but they are more "cheap" end – they would just rather get a booster seat and be done with it.

Personally, the safety of your child is worth the extra $$. He is clearly not ready to use the adult belt however. The car seat he is using is currently NOT installed correctly, and he isn’t even buckled properly in it. They do up the chest clip (which is PLASTIC, CLEARLY not enough to hold a child – especially of his size – in there), and just say that the straps are too tight to do the crotch straps up. Have they even TRIED to loosen them? No. Are they probably too small even at the largest size? Probably.

Now, I am only fourteen years old. I have been in his life ever since he was a newborn. I care for him like I would care for my brother, or even my own son. I would really prefer to suggest to them a Graco Nautilus (about 0 here), Evenflo Generations65 (probably 0ish here), or other similar seat, and install it in their car properly, however I know their response already – its too expensive! We are in Canada, so its not like we can just find a decent seat on Amazon for a decent price and order it, since the law for car seat states it must have the "Canadian sticker" on it.

Suggestions what I can do? Sorry its so long, I had a lot to explain!
I am thinking about helping them find a GOOD 5pt harness/ booster for a decent price, around 0. Any suggestions on car seats? Any suggestions on a Canadian car seat website?

Thank you so much ♥
It isn’t really a question of the child getting a car seat or getting to eat, its basically they just don’t want to spend they money on a car seat. I am not really in a position to buy one right now though. (n)

I didn’t have a booster seat when I was a kid.