Booster seats until they're 4'11"?

[wensleywhale]

Isn't that a bit overkill? Surely some adults are that height and don't use boosters?

My kids are staying in their boosters until they’re no longer fit them, it’s that’s 150cm, so be it.

It’s about fit, not just height. So different people have their height in different parts of their body (I’m 5ft 8, have to buy trousers in a short because all my height is in my torso), and different cars will have different heights and depths of seat too.

'Belly' 🤢

Children actually do much better in road accidents today than they did in the 80s. We've gone from over 1000 children killed or seriously injured yearly as passengers in cars to under 500. The first chart is overall, the second shows the breakdown between pedestrians, cyclists and passengers.

The number of children killed in 2022 on our roads as car passengers was just 20. That's a great improvement over past decades. Booster seat laws (they have been required since 2003) do seem to have made a difference, because statistical trends since 2011 show that the strongest decrease in road casualties is children aged 5-9 years old.

I set my seat higher. That is surely a similar action to a booster
You can't raise the seats in the back (on most cars)

I agree, I just know I would really have struggled to give my son the confidence to not feel self conscious if I'd collected him from school, given a mate a lift and they'd seen him in a booster seat. Or football matches etc.
He probably would have done everything he could do avoid his friends seeing him.
I'm not talking about kids having a moan, but dealing with the fact that they can really start to care what their friends think and their own image at that age.

It would have been a moot point for us anyway, as we were still social distancing etc when DS2 was in year 7 and 8.

My DDs were happy using boosters until 145cm is as it was more comfortable than a seatbelt across the neck.