To be FURIOUS that dh drove home with dd2 in the car without putting her in her booster seat?

[oliveoil]

Well in fact I know that I am completely justified.

Nobboid

She was having a complete strop when he left his mums to bring her and dd1 home. Dd1 was fine, dd2 refused to get in her chair so he took it out and put her on the seat with the seatbelt on.

1 min drive but that is not the sodding point.

Can you all glare at him through this screen please so he gets the MN disapproving vibes?

I thank you

Olive

Oh dear

haven't read thread but it is not so much the safety issue but the setting a precedent thing, yes

Oh dear

shall we suggest suitable penances?

oh no punishment required, he got the drift yesterday

dd2 is now asleep, it is a good job she is gorgeous, I tell you that

juice mummy
one more kiss
alllllllll the kisses
I luv you mummy

GO

TO

SLEEP

Point him at this leaflet . It makes very sobering reading for anyone tempted to bend the safety rules.

You buy a car seat for the purpose of taking in a taxi? (Yes you don't legally have to but honestly it's not like there's some invisible forcefield around taxis making them immune to accidents is there?) If she weighs more than 15kg then technically all that is needed (though definitely not the safest option by far) is a HBB which is fitted into place with the seatbelt and are fairly inexpensive.

@poweredbyplants

It was 15 years ago. Child will be grown up now.

Clearly I missed that part but it was also written in present tense which gives the impression it's a current situation not 15 years ago.

It was the present....15 years ago

Who writes in the past tense just in case someone accidentally see the thread in 15 years 😂

It was a current situation when she wrote the post in 2007.

I expect the kid started uni in September. 😂

One minute drive? I don’t think what he did was unreasonable.

Crap, sucked in to a zombie thread.

Sorry!

OH the thread was 15 years ago 😅 jeeze I swear the one time I don't actually read the dates on the post first, I'll go home 😅

Not only is it awful to think of what could happen if there were an accident, but there was also a case where a mum lost out on compensation for her daughter who had been injured in a car accident because she had not put her in the most appropriate restraint that was in the vehicle at the time.

Zombie thread

How - how do you end up clicking on a thread from this long ago?! We’re you googling car seats not used or something?

Trunki does a travel booster.

Has rucksack straps.

Can put stuff in it too (doubled as a bag).

It's less comfortable than a regular rucksack but a booster seat rucksack is going to be.

I got a trunki booster in my local kids 2nd hand shop for 4 quid but I'm sure eBay has some I'd you don't want to pay full whack.

Oh FFS ZOMBIE.

However I still recommend trunki travel.boosters 😀

Get another fucking seat! If you can’t afford one you can’t afford the car

Psycho's son is now 19, it's a bit late to advise her to get another fucking seat.

For me it came up up on page 2 or 3 of AIBU, glitch possibly? MN HQ boosting zombie threads to have a laugh at the expense of those of us who don't read properly before replying? Who knows.