to think it's a bit indulgent to put a child in the front seat of the car rather than an adult?

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Obviously in the passenger seat.

And don't get me started on the safety of it.

YANBU

my sil does it, i dont get it myself. i am with you on the safety issue

where a child seat safely fits in the back anyone IBU putting child seat in the front.

No, I agree with you. Mum and Dad in the front, kids in the back.

there is no limits to some peoples stupidity

If we put aside the safety aspect, then no, I don't think it is indulgent. An adult doesn't automatically deserve more rights than a child.

But we need more info, what exactly happened?

My SIL travels in the back with her son, and my BIL has to drive them around. It's because car travel is an ideal time to further educate her child (!)

Ds1 goes in the front seat sometimes when we have a car, because he gets travelsick and for some reason he's less likely to throw up everywhere if he sits in the front. If we know our journey is going to have a good few turns, or last a while, we would quite often go for this option.

Actually, if its the parents who have paid for the car etc etc, they should get the choice and have the "right" to the front seat.

my dc sits in the front because the front seat has a head rest and the back doesn't, so her head is way above the seat in the back

so pah to you

I was allowed to sit in the front seat for the first time on the way to my first holy communion. It was a few more years until I was allowed to again, even if it was only one adult and me in the car.

Much safer to sit children in the back and they're smaller so need less space. And if adults sit in the back they only lean forward to talk all the time and get in the way of the rearview mirror

overmy nothing really happened, I've just seen it a bit at school - doors with 4 cars and child in booster in the front, second parent/grandparent in rear.

I actually hadn't considered the car sickness thing bullet, a very good point.

And pah backatya , ROH, I'm talking about putting DC in front with adult in back, surely they need a head rest too?

Depends doesn;t it?

In our Multipla for example it's two rows of three: perfectly reasonable if you are a family of six.

otherwise I much prefer not to drie with a child in the front but if airbags etc turned off it's choice surely?

Yeah, Scram the airbag thing bothers me, and I also find the DCs in the front as distraction.

I asked someone why they put their PFB in the front. They replied that she likes it and I like to please her.

Bugger the fact that the airbag can't be switched off and would probably kill her if it was activated.

I have my DD in the front because as a lone parent, it's 95% just me & her in the car all the time, and putting her in the back where I can't see her and would thus have to try driving forwards whilst looking over my shoulder to check she's OK/breathing/see why she's crying etc would surely be more dangerous?

I don't think it's indulgent at all. For me, it's a matter of being less distracted whilst driving.

When DS1 was born, our car didn't have rear seatbelts so we had no choice but to put the car seat in the front, there was no other way to fix it.

You're not allowed to put them in the front with an airbag if they're in a rear facing infant car seat, it's OK with a regular car seat (or that's what it says in my handbook, at least.)

Depends on the age of the child but in general I'd say YABU - from the age of about 9 I was in the front seat and my mum was in the back. It was because I got very car sick if I was in the back seat but for some reason being in the front helped. There could easily be a practical reason such as this.

My friend always lets her now 10 yo sit in the front even if she's giving another adult a lift. So if I go in her car I have to struggle into the back seat (it only has two doors) and then sit scrunched up with my knees practically under my chin, while darling pfb lolls about in the front. He also plays with the radio the whole time so every now and again the person in the back nearly gets deafened, and it is impossible for the adults to hold a conversation, or insists on having the window wide open causing an icy draught to the person behind him.

He doesn't suffer from car-sickness btw, but after a journey like that I often do!

We are soon going to put DS1 (7) in his booster seat in the passenger seat, with me having to sit in the middle in the back when we are all in the car - BUT this is because we can't fit three child seats in the back seat of the car and can't afford to change cars.

Believe me, I would rather sit in the front but I don't need a booster seat (am just tall enough) and he does. We will be turning the airbag off though.

So if it's through choice, YANBU - if necessity YABU.

Yeah eden it's ok to do it, but an airbag is designed to explode into a chest.

If a child is sitting in the seat when an airbag activates, then it can cause brain damage (or worse)when it hits them in the head.

YABU. Not all cars have back seats :)

at hogs.

That wasn't how I phrased the OP.

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My DS was in the front when he was a baby and he stayed there if I had other passengers because I couldn't be arsed to move him.

But I'm a single parent - would be a bit weird if I had a partner.

I saw a couple today where she got in the back with the baby and then the baby sat on her lap