The Most Common Car Seat Mishaps New Parents Make

Some parents decide, whether because they have three car seats in the back or because they want to be able to see their child better in the middle seat, to use the outside anchors of the window seats to secure a car seat in the middle. "Many people want to use LATCH and they want to put their child in the rear center seat," Tilton said. "Most vehicles do not offer a LATCH system in the center. Some parents use the inner anchors of the outer seats, which is prohibited by many car seat and vehicle manufacturers because the distance between those lower anchors has to be a certain, set distance. In the center, the distance is much wider, so this is a very common misuse."