Toddler Car Seat Debate: when to turn forward-facing?

[99Saturn]

As we only have car seats that allow for a thin blanket or towel, now I'm curious what obstruction these causes for some seats? I get if it s a thick(er) pad and the pad shifts but something pretty thin?

https://csftl.org/seat-protectors-at-a-glance/

Found the above list interesting, no idea how up to date/accurate it is.

 

[tbm5690]

I don't see any issue with a thin protector under any seat assuming it's properly tethered and tightened down.

 

[RooflessVW]

I don't see any issue with a thin protector under any seat assuming it's properly tethered and tightened down.

Same. These rules are made for your average imbecile. If the seat is secure, it is secure.

 

[doitmyself]

I brought this older thread back, simply to share the picture below from our recent visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.

 

[fantastic]

I brought this older thread back, simply to share the picture below from our recent visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.
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Very interesting! Would this be 60's to 70's vintage?

 

[Chris142]

We turned Ellie around at 2. She wouldn't stop screaming with it facing backwards. I couldn't take the constant ear piercing screaming any longer.

She hasn't screamed since we turned her seat around and she can sit like the rest of us.

 

[doitmyself]

Very interesting! Would this be 60's to 70's vintage?

Yes. A Google search indicates that child seat safety laws started to really get going by 1979 and most states adopted early laws by the about 1986.
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/expert-sets/101263/