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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion: Archive January 2004: Do you wear your seat belt??
YES, I do! ALWAYS!! My kids are properly restrained for each and every trip as well.
ALWAYS! We use our seatbelts every time we get in the car.
All the time! Kids are in proper carseats. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Yes, we are all properly restrained
Absolutely. To tell you the truth i feel kinda 'naked' if i don't put on my seat belt right away.
ALL the time! My husband, kids and I ALWAYS wear seat belts, always used car seats when we needed to, and always wear bike helmets.
Yes, all the time. The only time I don't is when I am riding in someone else's car and there is only a lap belt available. I choose to use nothing in that case. All other times, I feel naked without it. I know my Mother does not always wear hers. Her generation didn't, but mine buckles up for safety.
I know what you mean about mom's not growing up in that generation. However, my mom and dad lived at the bottom of a hill and when I was about 6, one Sunday evening we saw a terrible accident (head-on collision (sp?). One car going up the hill and a truck coming down the hill. There were kids on the back of the truck (remember that era?) and we saw a kid fly through the air what seemed like forever and landed in a field nearby. I can still see that so clearly in my mind. We were never allowed to ride in the back of a truck again and after that we always used seatbelts. Heaven knows why me, mom and dad were standing at the picture window that Sunday evening, it was a terrible thing to watch
My parents wear seatbelts, too. At the point that seatbelts were available in cars in the 60's, we were all expected to wear seatbelts. It's my grandma that I just fasten it for her because she never would do it on her own.
Always!
Absolutely! Kids in proper car/booster seat, also. I irritate some of my friends when they ride with me because my car doesn't move unless everyone's buckled in. *g* Here's a little quote I like, don't know who said it.
Yes, always. My dks are always properly restrained, my 3 yr. old in a carseat and my 5-1/2 year old in a booster. We just moved to Illinois this month. I heard on the news that they are changing the carseat law here effective the 1st. Now, dks from ages 4 to 7 must be in booster seats. I am so glad they changed it. I know in Texas, where it is only to age 4, most kids in my ds's kindergarten were not riding in boosters.
The law here (Utah) is something like 85 pounds and under must be in proper booster/car seats. But of course I still see parents dropping off their kindergarteners with NO seatbelt at all, let alone a carseat!
I work in a plaintiffs' personal injury law firm. That means we represent people who were injured, often in motor vehicle accidents. I can always tell, by looking at the medical records, which client was wearing a seat belt and who wasn't. Those without seat belts always, ALWAYS, have worse injuries.
Yes always!!
Always here too. And no children allowed in my car without proper carseat or booster. And in the event I do have a guest w/ child, the rules are "we can go only if the seat fits in my car properly. If it doesn't I'll have to cancel our plans."
Good! Glad to hear so many people always wear their seat belts!
Always
Bummer.
When our oldest was in Driver's Education in high school, we attended a Parents - Teachers night. His driving instructor asked how many of the parents wore seat belts every time they were in their cars. About half the parents raised their hands. Then he asked how many of us wanted our kids to buckle up every time, and every hand was in the air. He reminded us then, that kids follow what they see us do.... not hear us say. From that day forward, I've never started our car without everyone inside bucked up.
Absolutely!!! The kids, also. When they were in CPS Care (before they came to me), they had them VERY well trained to buckle up before the car moved.
Absoposilutely!!! I've been wearing mine since I was a young teenager and even got my parents into the habit of wearing theirs. The car doesn't move unless everyone is PROPERLY buckled in. I worked in a rehab unit for several years and saw far too many patients who had to re-learn how to talk, eat, walk, dress themselves, establish bowel/bladder control, etc. after severe head injuries caused from being unbuckled in a car accident...IF they even survived. It's also the same reason why no one in my house will own a motorcycle (where helmets do little to protect because of high speeds) and why helmets must be worn for all bike and skateboarding activities.
the car does not rolll until all belts are strapped. when other kids come over and say their parents do not make them strap I inform them that the car does not roll until all belts are strapped. it is automatic for my children. they do not even have to think about it anymore, they just do it first thing.
Trina, knowing you, I can assume your extra boosters are belted in as well?
LOL, Kate! You assumed correctly.
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