We got these so that when he's 8 kids at school will mock him because he's still in the seat he had when he was two he can still wear his awesome 5 point racing harness.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Why are you putting an 8 year old in a car seat? Are you giving him a helmet and mittens on a string too?

Technically it's a booster seat with a 5-point harness. So he can sit in it until he's over 80 lbs or 4' 9".

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

I am so glad I'm not a kid these days. I went through enough hell of being humiliated every day of my life when I was 8 without my parents making me ride in a car seat. If they did, I would have just killed mylsef.

I think there are laws now that they have to ride in car seats until they're 10.  Or until they start shaving.  Whichever is later.

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peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002

If these laws are required to keep kids safe from harm, then how come everyone over the age of 10 hasn't died from being so endangered?

This is another reason why I'm not having kids. I don't have the energy to deal with the bullshit regulations that are forced on parents. It's already bad enough having parents with their precious DDs and DSs tell me that my parents should have been jailed for child abuse because they let me play by myself when I was 12. Twelve. (True story)

They're just guidlines, I think. I don't believe a cop would pull you over and measure your kid and give you a ticket because he was three inches too short.

It's really just there because kids aren't quite the right size for seat belts to fit them properly until they're bigger. And this thing doesn't really look like a car seat. It looks like someone yanked the front seat of my car out and put it in the back seat. It's almost big enough for me to sit in, and I'm 6' 2" and 260 lbs.

I also don't think it'll be too embarassing for him. The other day I had to drop my friend's 6 1/2 year old at school and I asked him to sit in it just to see how he fit. He still had some room to grow, plus he was pissed off that he couldn't stay in it.

We got these because 5 point harnesses are safer than just using a booster seat and the car belt.

And what problem did people have with you playing by yourself? I'd give my right arm if my kid would play by himself. Amusing a 2 1/2 year old for hours on end is fucking tiring.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

ivytheplant

Yeah, people suck. I was grifting by age twelve.

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gabe_billings

That was a brilliantly written synopsis on the entire situation. It's nice to read something that isn't just "how dumb is that?" With their entire argument being, "That's dumb, everyone's dumb." Way to stand up and explain what those seats are all about.

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You don't know what I got... .

Those seats are wicked. I wish I could fit into them.

Please be sure, though, that you are using your seat belt, gabe. As a doctor once told my aunt, it would be hella traumatic for your kid to survive a car wreck and get to look at what happened to mama and daddy. My aunt went around buckling random people into seatbelts after that one.

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You can take the heart out of the hooker but you can't take the hooker out of the heart. -- Frankenhooker

Always.

In fact, a giant pet peeve of mine is seeing parents riding around on bikes with their kids, and the kids are wearing helmets and the parents aren't.

Way to set an example, shit for brains.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

What about parents who tell their kids to never be dishonest and marriage is sacred, then go have an affair for fifteen years?