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Exploring Car Seat Features: Enhancing Safety, Comfort, and Ease of Use
Choosing the right car seat involves more than just fitting your vehicle. Modern car seats offer advanced features like stability load legs, rigid lower anchors, anti-rebound bars, and belt-tensioning mechanisms that enhance safety, comfort, and ease of use. Consulting a Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST) provides personalized recommendations and ensures proper installation. Discover how these innovations improve your child's travel experience.
More Parents Choosing Professional Car Seat Installation for Enhanced Child Safety on the Road
Ensuring the safety of our children is paramount, especially when it comes to car travel. A recent survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) indicates a significant rise in parents opting for professional car seat installation. Over the past year, there has been a 15% increase in parents seeking certified technicians to help them install their car seats, highlighting a growing trend towards ensuring maximum safety for children on the road.
The Hidden Gamble: Ensuring Your Child’s Safety with Proper Car Seat Installation
As parents, we diligently research the best foods, toys, and environments for our children. However, many of us unknowingly gamble with their safety by incorrectly installing car seats. Shockingly, studies reveal misuse rates between 63% and 95%, with severe consequences. Even confident caregivers often make critical errors. Investing in professional car seat installation can significantly reduce these risks, ensuring peace of mind and better protection for our children on every journey.
Car Seat Safety: Navigating the Complexities and Misconceptions
Every year, millions of American families secure their children in car seats, believing they have taken a crucial step to ensure their safety. However, studies reveal a troubling reality: many car seats are installed incorrectly, putting children at greater risk during car crashes. This article explores the high misuse rates, caregiver overconfidence, and the essential role of Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians.
How-To-SAFETY Expands Children’s Safety Car Seat Installation Services to Manhattan and Brooklyn
How-To-SAFETY, a leading car seat installation service, is expanding its professional and convenient mobile services to Manhattan and Brooklyn. After years of serving Staten Island, the company now offers at-home car seat installation throughout New York City, ensuring that children are properly secured and safe during travel.
How-To-Safety Featured in SIParent: TOP 15 Car Seat Tips
Read on for tips to find out if you are using the right seat correctly.
How-To-Safety Participates in Healthy Kids Day
How-To-Safety Participates in Healthy Kids Day at the Staten Island South Shore YMCA on Saturday, April 30th. Healthy Kids Day is a free day of fun and excitement for the family. Keep your kids in “WOW” condition! Stop by from 10am-3pm for lots of FREE activities! It’s a fit family fun blast! [...]
How-To-Safety Participates in Baby Expo
How-To-Safety joins Staten Island Baby Expo, an event co-sponsored by Richmond University Medical Center & Babies 'R Us. How-To-Safety will be there to provide child passenger safety educational materials, answer car seat questions, demonstrate proper car seat use, raise awareness about road related preventable trauma, and help parents and parents-to-be keep their children safer in [...]
How-To-SAFETY Holds a Free Car Seat Safety Class at Babies R Us Staten Island
How-To-Safety is offering an opportunity for new and expectant parents to learn about keeping their little ones safe in the car with a focus on the proper use of car seats. The class is facilitated by a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST) and teaches parents about: - Choosing the [...]
Staten Island’s How-To-SAFETY Team Holds a Free Car Seat Check-up Event in Support of National “Seat Check Saturday”
How-To-SAFETY is conducting a FREE child car seat inspection and installation event on Staten Island, NY taking place September 19, 2015. Invitations are extended to parents with children ages newborn-12 y/o, expecting parents, grandparents, and caregivers. A certified Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST) will be on-hand to teach parents and caregivers how to choose the right [...]
How-To-SAFETY Joins 11th Annual KIDZ In Motion Conference
How-To-SAFETY joins 2015 Kidz in Motion, a national child passenger safety conference held in Orlando, FL. The conference aims to provide informative sessions that reflect the diversity of the field, with the intent of increasing knowledge and sharing best practices. Hundreds of CPS technicians, instructors and advocates will be discussing the [...]
How-To-Safety Assists with Car Seat Installations for Ford’s “Ultimate Driving Challenge”, a Mother’s Day Video Tribute
"The Ultimate Driving Challenge,” a humorous homage by Ford Motor Company reveals the True Ultimate Driver: Mom. How-To-Safety participates in the Mother’s Day tribute by overseeing child passenger safety and correct use of car seats and child restraints during filming. The production, directed by Josh + Vince of Big Block, [...]
How-To-Safety Incorporates Car Seat Installation Services at Posh Baby & Teen
How-To-Safety now provides car seat installation and education service at Staten Island's Posh Baby & Teen's newly launched car seat and strolled department. How-To-Safety will be there to provide child passenger safety educational materials, answer car seat questions, demonstrate proper car seat use, raise awareness about road related preventable injury, [...]
How-To-Safety Participates in Baby Health Fair & Expo
How-To-Safety joins Baby Health Fair & Expo, an event co-sponsored by Richmond University Medical Center & Babies 'R Us. How-To-Safety will be there to provide child passenger safety educational materials, answer car seat questions, demonstrate proper car seat use, raise awareness about road related preventable trauma, and help parents and parents-to-be keep [...]
How-To-SAFETY Joins Safe Kids Global Road Safety Summit Kickoff
How-to-SAFETY takes part in Safe Kids Global Road Safety Summit in Washington D.C., the kickoff for Safe Kids Worldwide’s Safe Roads | Safe Kids campaign to significantly raise the issue of global road safety on the international agenda and reduce child morbidity and mortality resulting from traffic collisions around the [...]
How-To-Safety Completes Additional Training in Passenger Safety for Children with Special Health Care Needs
How-To-Safety completes additional training course on "Safe Travels for All Children: Transporting Children with Special Health Care Needs", a curriculum developed by National Center for the Safe Transportation of Children with Special Healthcare Needs and the Automotive Safety Program at Indiana University School of Medicine. The specialized training was provided [...]
How-To-SAFETY Supports National Car Seat Safety Week on Staten Island with Free Car Seat Inspections
How-To-SAFETY is joining Child Passenger Safety Week 2014 and "National Seat Check Saturday" with car seat inspection and installation event in Staten Island. Certified technicians will be teaching caregivers how to choose the right car seats for their children and how to install and use them correctly. How-To-SAFETY announces that car [...]
How-To-SAFETY Participates in Free Car Seat Check Event hosted by NYC DOT
Safe Kids NYC, led by New York City Department of Transportation, is holding a free car-seat checkup event to help parents and caregivers prevent childhood injuries. This event is held in partnership with Millennium Development and Bergen Beach Youth Organization. Caregivers can attend the event on Tuesday August 12, 3:00 [...]
How-To-SAFETY Joins 2014 NHTSA Region 2 Child Passenger Safety Technical Conference
How-To-SAFETY joins 2014 NHTSA Region 2 Child Passenger Safety Technical Conference. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) along with the Conference Planning Committee is hosting the eleventh Child Passenger Safety Technical Conference held at the Penn Stater Conference Center in State College, Pennsylvania in June of 2014. The NHTSA [...]
How-To-Safety Completes Training in Passenger Safety for Children with Special Health Care Needs
How To Safety completes training course on "Safe Travels for All Children: Transporting Children with Special Health Care Needs", a curriculum developed by National Center for the Safe Transportation of Children with Special Healthcare Needs and the Automotive Safety Program at Indiana University School of Medicine. Specialized or adaptive child [...]
How-To-SAFETY attending Safe Kids NYC Conference, May 2014
How-To-SAFETY attending Safe Kids NYC Conference, May 2014. Safe Kids New York City led by NYCDOT is holding a “Safe Kids Healthy Families” Conference, on May 15, 2014 at Lenox Hill Hospital. Safe Kids Healthy Families is a multi-disciplinary injury prevention education program for health educators, childcare providers, after-school directors, [...]