84-Lancastar Fuming, Saturday, October 10,1998 Taking Time by Rebecca Escott Buckle Up Your Children! Perhaps like me. many of you have heard the statistics that four out of five car seats are not used property. It shocked me to think that many children are not really protected the way their parents think they are. Unless car seats are used exactly as directed they don’t guarantee the level of protection that is needed. Recently I researched this prob lem. I spoke with Angela Osten huber, a traffic injury prevention specialist in southeastern Pennsyl vania. She conducts safety checks with local police departments and trains local health departments to present educational programs in their communities. Once I inter viewed her, my shock about car seat misuse turned to embarrass ment. I realized I was part of the statistic. There were things that I wasn’t doing correctly things that made my daughter less pro tected. One common mistake that par ents make is that they don’t strap the seat into the car tight enough. A car seat should not move more than one inch in any direction. The best advice I got was this installing a car seat is often a two person job. It may help if one per son kneels on the car seat while die other lightens the belt 1 found that I could get my car seat much tighter even if I just placed one our ■ HV* ' .<"/ * >< y ** *<. s <m» i ■’;. ,■ . * */: .-, >■ FOR FARM BUREAU MEMBERS knee on the seat while 1 pulled the belt. In many models of cars, seat belts are a combination lap* shoulder belts. These belts require a locking clip (an H-shapcd metal clip placed just above die belt clasp) to keep the belt from loos ening. All current models of car seats come with a locking clip. Another mistake that parents make is that they don’t strap the child in tightly enough. If a child fusses, the parent kindly loosens the straps. Unfortunately, this puts the child in jeopardy if they are in an accident The safety guidelines specify that the car seat harness should be snug enough that an adult can only slip one finger be tween the strap and the child’s col larbone. Any sliding clasp should be high on the child’s chest (roughly arm pit level) to keep the child’s head and upper body from moving too much. A third mistake that parents make is that they put a child in a forward-facing seat too early. It is important that a child stay in a rear-facing seat until she is at least one-year-old and at least 20 pounds. This is one of the areas that we did wrong. If your child is a 20-pound nine-month-old and is too big for the rear-facing infant seat that you brought him home from the hospital in, then you need Sign up for a trip to the American Farm Bureau Annual Meeting and sightseeing tour in Albuquerque, New Mexico January 7-14,1999 Two days at the AFBF Annual Meeting will include inform ative conferences, displays, keynote speakers and lots for booths where you can sample local foods from produced in various states. Country music singer Michael Martin Murphy is the scheduled entertainment. For additional information and reservations, contact Cindy or Joan at Holiday Travel 800-221-6763 or (717) 763-7878 ew Mexico Sightseeing highlights: • Santa Fe and Loretto Chapel • Acoma Indian Cultural Center • Sandia Peak Tram • “Old Town” • More sightseeing and a country & western dinner dance! to buckle him up in a rear-tacmg convertible seat that accommo dates children up to 40 pounds. Once the child is both 20 pounds and one-year-old, he can then sit in a forward-being seat. Although Pennsylvania rules are not this stringent, the highway safety programs recommend that children use some sort of car seat or booster seat until they are at least eight years old and 80 pound s. They also suggest that no one under the age of 12 should ride in the front seat of a car. I know for many families these expectations seem ridiculous. You have children who want to sit in the front, who think they are too old for car seats. You have infants who would rather look at you in the minor or watch the lights on your dash board than stare at a gray seat back. You just don’t have the patience to listen to their complaining one mote time. But 'remember why you are doing it And remember there ate a lot of crazy, out-of-control drivers on the roods these days. You want to protect them! Each year nearly 1,400 children under IS years of age die in motor vehicle crashes. 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