Hot car deaths are completely preventable. According to NoHeatStroke.org, a tragic total of 939 children have died from heat-related deaths after being left or trapped inside vehicles between 1998 and September 2021 (27 in 2021, 24 in 2020, 52 in 2019, 53 in 2018, 43 in 2017). On average, 39 children die in heat-related vehicle […] More
Did you know that every 33 seconds a child under 13 is involved in a car crash in the United States? That fact probably is not the first thing you think about when you are hauling your kids to school, the grocery store, or anywhere else around town. And really, you should not have to […] More
I have two small dogs that I travel with often. To keep Espen and Kenobi safe, I use car seat tethers to prevent my dogs from running around my vehicle on road trips. I also use tethers to keep my animals from becoming dangerous projectiles in the case of an accident. When recently offered the […] More
I first started using a car baby mirror with my daughter when I found one at a garage sale when she was about five months old. When my son was born three years later, I also used a mirror for him in the car. I keep my babies rear-facing for as long as possible for […] More
Disclosure: I received a BeltLock as part of an advertorial. Kids love to unbuckle seat belts — which is a significant safety problem when the vehicle is moving. Although my daughter still rides in a rear facing car seat, she will someday move into a forward facing car seat and then a forward facing […] More
Child safety when placed in a car seat is a major concern for the US Department of Transportation (DOT), so much so that DOT Secretary Ray LaHood recently joined National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator David Strickland and Safe Kids President and CEO Kate Carr for the kick-off of Child Passenger Safety Week. During their meeting, […] More
