Car seats are expensive. Better car seats are more expensive. The cost of car seats is a common debate, even though in the end it isn’t really relevant. The safest Read more
Swedish child safety heading to SA
National car seat awareness initiative #CarseatFullstop has partnered with Gauteng based doctor and entrepreneur Dr Tahera Essay to bring some of the safest car seats in the world to South Read more
Addressing rear-facing concerns with science
I am a careful driver. I don’t have any history of accidents, whether from my own doing or anyone else’s. But I also don’t have any illusions – almost every Read more
Dear Grandparents… This is why my child needs to be in a car seat
One of the toughest things you face when you are trying to keep your children safe with car seats is resistance from other people… While a stranger or casual acquaintance’s Read more
How far would you go for a child’s safety?
In the same way that I hate being told what to do, I hate telling other people what to do. Parenting is hard enough without people making judgements about our parenting Read more
Car seat safety comes first!
We’re still talking about car seat safety! As part of the #CarseatFullstop campaign, we spread the message far and wide about the ins and outs of car seat safety. Here Read more
Changing behaviour – we live and learn
The #CarseatFullstop campaign is aimed at encouraging the proper use of carseats, child restraints and seatbelts for children. For some of us this requires changing behaviour for both parents and children. I Read more
When is your child booster seat ready?
Determining when your child is booster seat ready can be something most parents neglect. I include myself in this… Once my eldest outgrew his toddler car seat, we invested in Read more
BeSafe iZi Plus – truly extended rear facing
One of the things that frustrates me the most with South African car seats, is that so many of our children outgrow their harnessed child car seats before they are Read more
How to respond to common car seat arguments
Car seat arguments seem to pop up wherever I go (it’s not me, is it?!) There are some incredibly smart people that think it’s exaggeration to say a car seat Read more
