Larva is now in a highback booster and has been since five and a few months. I switched her because she was resisting the harness enough to become a bigger safety concern than less-than-perfect use of the booster that took a few weeks of reminders to sit straight and keep her feet down to overcome.
And in a 4-5 adult household, being able to throw a booster from one car to another correctly was far better than trying to repeatedly install a harnessed seat in different vehicles with different drivers.
I think this is the answer to the question: you aren’t turning him because he’s not upset by it, its all within car safety codes and it doesn’t bug the people who drive him around 90% of the time.
(My kids were both turned forward ~2yo because motion sickness, which is pretty average here, but many turn earlier because there isnt as much info or carseats for extended rear facing options).
I feel like this definitely can’t be understated. A poorly installed car seat is not going to be some massive safety win over a properly installed booster for a kid that is an appropriate size. Real world logistics absolutely matter.
I saw the setup in their car and the car seat has way less room for him rear facing than in ours! I was the bad DIL who interpreted things poorly and they were valid in their request lol. I have sent them the info and it’s helpful to get a frame of reference from everyone so thank you!
We will do some tweaking with their car seat and if it doesn’t work we will find a different solution.
Oooh yeah if its for fitting in their car and it doesn’t fit, thats definitely a different discussion! Fortunately if you do go with forward facing in their car/ rear facing in yours, the different cars will hopefully convince kiddo thats “just that different cars are different” and not that he gets to be forward facing everywhere!
Not sure which car seat you have but the extend to fit has a big limitation in the forward facing mode in that it has to be inclined to the 4 position when the kid is less than 40 lbs. My husband has a smaller car and this means that we can’t have the seat forward facing until 40 lbs because it doesn’t fit.
Cuckoo has been forward facing in the less used car since about 2 1/2 because otherwise the passenger seat wasn’t usable. We only used the van until that age! She is still rear facing in the van and will be until she is too tall for the harness to fit right, or too heavy.
Update: we turned Pipsqueak forward facing two nights ago to look at Christmas lights around the big fancy neighborhood. Yesterday we kept it forward facing on a short trip to the botanical gardens.
Today she insisted that we turn it rear facing again before driving 15 minutes to a hiking trail. She was adamant that it’s better that way
We’re doing B1’s first friend party in a few weeks - parents are staying.
Kids will be having cheese pizza. What should I serve for adults? Note all adults I know are burned out on cheese pizza
A hot meal - rice, 1-2 curries, salad
Bagel platter and fruit (but it seems weird if they need to toast their own?)
Sandwiches maybe with soup?
Hummus or something?
Adults would also be welcome to eat pizza and kids to eat real food obviously. And parents will be all Canadian-immigrant. Max 2nd gen
If a hot meal is easy, I love it when birthday parties have a small buffet or real food. Here it’s usually Mexican but sometimes a Mediterranean spread with rice, pita, sauce, chickpeas, tomato cucumber salad, and a spiced chicken.
If that’s too much effort then a platter of fruit and cheese and hummus with fancier crackers works great!
Also even when I’m burnt out on cheese pizza it’s fine. I assume I will eat the leftover piece that Pipsqueak doesn’t finish and get real food during a different time of the day.
Or, we have a fancy pizza place here that doe kale and sausage or other delicious toppings that feels like we’re eating veggies even though it’s still pizza.
Any of those sound like good options! Where I live when bagels are served there is no expectation of toaster availability. Soup might feel too messy to eat at a party, but all the others seem good.
Any favorite board books about dogs? Chickadee developed a powerful love of dogs after visiting her grandparents at Christmas and is also obsessed with books.
