The Most Common Car Seat Errors Parents Make
The Most Common Car Seat Mishaps New Parents Make
Using a Seat That Doesn't Fit the Child
"A very common misuse is that families will purchase that rear-facing bucket seat to bring the baby home in and then turn that seat forward facing later because they think it's better than nothing," Tilton said of parents who don't want to make a financial commitment of buying a new car seat for their baby.
Additionally, parents sometimes take their children out of a car seat and put them into a booster seat before they're big enough, which could be a fatal mistake. Christine Miller, whose 3-year-old son Kyle passed away due to a car crash because he was in a booster seat he was too small for, said: "I think the hardest part of it all is knowing how easily preventable it was. Had I just known about the dangers of booster seats for toddlers, had somebody warned me, I would have put him in a five-point harness car seat . . . and that simple difference would have changed everything. It would have saved his life."
