Swivelling a car seat so it faces side window

[Carriedthemfar]

I’m just wondering if this is unsafe, or not. My three year old keeps reaching across and hurting the baby and in desperation I’ve resorted to spinning his seat so he’s facing outside rather than looking straight ahead?

The swivel function is there to ease getting them in and out and change from rear to forward facing. It is not safe to face a child any other way.

This..

He really wouldn’t be bothered about that. He would just keep whining for sweets irrespective of whether or not he kept the straps on.

He generally escapes before we’ve even left the drive tbh.

He didn’t try to hurt the baby today so hopeful that was a horrible one off.

Are you confident you have the fit right? What seat is it as you might be able to tweak a few things and stop him escaping.
Are the inserts in? Headrest at correct height? Shoulder pads in right place?

You’ve had great advice already. We had similar escapology from my DS at about the same age. What cracked it for us was the car didn’t move if he wasn’t in his straps. It was really frustrating and I had to put life on hold effectively (or allow a LOT of extra time) but quite simply, I just turned the car off if outside the house, or pulled over (safely!) if we were out and calmly reiterated that we couldn’t move until he was safely in his seat. And waited. He 100% picked up on me being in a rush to get somewhere, but when I fully committed to “we’re not moving if you’re not in your car seat properly” he got it really really quickly.