10 yr old and car boosters.

[BegoniaBampot]

more to pick your thoughts. I still want to use the booster seat for our average sized 10 yr old. Husband says it's not needed.

But, ideally anyone under 150cm or 5ft should use a booster possibly so, but it looks particularly daft on a drivers seat and I'm not sure they make them wide enough for my bum

My dd is 8yo and only 120 cm. she's still in a high back booster in our car (I let her go on a normal booster for lifts in others cars). I will keep her in a booster until she's 150cm or 12 yo.

lol at chipping, my aunt has one!

I think a handy rule of thumb on this one is that, unless exceptionally tall, keep them in a seat until secondary school. And make that a high back until aged in double figures.

My DS is 9 and hasn't used the booster seat for a while, it is in the car but chooses to ignore it

LovesGSD I don't understand the smile? Sorry if that sounds snippy.

At ten years of age I'd have died if my mum would have put me in a booster seat.

We're not talking about suddenly returning a 10 year old to a booster, though,??? My DC (actually both now over 135cm) understand that we as their parents feel that they are safer in their car seats, so that's what happens in our cars. It's really not an issue.

At ten years of age I'd have died if my mum would have put me in a booster seat

At the age of 10, a short child may be more likely to actually die if they aren't using a booster.

My DD is short, she carried on using booster until she was over 135cm. She stopped using it regularly when she started secondary. It wasn't a case of 'mum putting her in a booster seat' - she's a sensible child who understood it was for her safety.

I didn't say anything to the contrary, I'm just saying I wouldn't liked to have sat in one at the age of ten.

My ds is 10 and only 123cm and is the only one not in a booster but he happily still gets in the seat. He'll be in it until he gets to 135cm.

I'm 150cm but my bum's too big for a booster.

The law came into force in 2006, GhostShip, unless you are under 16 your parents would have had no reason to put you back into a seat!

And the expectation now is that children will be in seats, and so they all treat it as normal throughout primary.

just follow the law for fucks sake.

• only one of his friends still in a booster. Pleurisy is getting the better of me today

My DS was out of booster seats long before he was 12. Probably at about 5 in fact. He was v tall for his age, and this was before the new rules were brought in. In fact I had to go out and buy a booster seat for transporting DS's friend who was much shorter.

DSS however continued to use his booster until way past the height of 135cm. But that is because he is afraid of change - and also knew that he wouldn't have to sit in the middle seat of the car (as his booster rocked from side to side) so the older boys had to sit there. Ulterior motive for everything.

Thanks for reminding me, I ought to stick the boaster seat in the car for giving lifts tonight.

Feel rotten insisting it's used as the DC in question must be very fed up of being known as the little one.

She is a year younger than than DD, but I doubt any one else in Y6 has used a boaster for over a year.

Stars - you're right to have the seat for smaller friends, but IIRC the law does allow for odd lifts to be boosterless.

My DD - and some of her friends - were still using boosters in year 6.

Border line legally as I do the same 30 minute trip most weeks.
Not like stopping and saying jump in because it's pouring with rain.

my 2 dds r tiny

dd1 is 7 years old - 113cms tall
weighs 16kg

DD is 10 and well over 135 cm, but still uses one most of the time out of choice because she can see better out of the window.

THE LAW IS 135CM so if 135cm when aged 8 legally do not need a booster if 12 and still only 128 they do not legally need a booster any longer

also in an emergency a child can use ordinary seat belt

ideally in this case it should be three point and prefarably middle seat in back

Polter my OH took great delight in informing my sister of that fact. I'm 44, and she's older than me. I can't add anything useful as it's all been said.

dd1 is 7 years old - 113cms tall, weighs 16kg

Aw, DD2 is 3 and 9 months and 110cm and 17.6kgs :)

My DDs are 9 and 11 - DD1 is 155 cm, DD2 is 145 cm. They are both still in boosters - it helps reduce car sickness because they get a better view out of the windows, their seat belts fit better and it's safer. If tall enough high backs had been available when they were younger, I'd have kept them in those for longer, but when the top of the high back was at base of skull height, they became risk so I switched to boosters.

I suspect DD1 will come out of boosters when she hits 160cm as she will then hit the ceiling with her head, but not before then.