For clarification and reminder: For best protection, a child should remain in each stage of restraint until they reach the maximum height and weight based on the manufacturer’s instructions.

Make sure to follow your car seats manual as well! Our 3 year old is still rear facing in her car seat until she maxes out of the car seats height/weight limits.

And just because it is legal to move your kid to the next step doesn’t mean you NEED to. Rear facing as long as your child is within the limits of your car seat is safest and then staying in a harness as long as your car seat allows is also best.

My youngest daughter is 15 and still sits in a Booster. She is smaller than most kids her age and plus she feels more comfortable in the booster.

My 7 year old is 4'3" and weighs over 80 pounds I'm not shoving her into a booster seat...you can forget it

Some babies one and two years be bigger than the average baby so I feel with my two year old having longer legs its difficult to put him rear facing. People just need to slow down and stop driving in a hurry everywhere. Some of us have kids in our cars. Please drive safe.

I'm positive you guys have bigger fish to fry that this in this city!

Rear face as long as possible based on rear facing car seat manual!

Here is what the law says: (a) A child under the age of two years must be properly secured in a child restraint system that is rear-facing until the child reaches the weight or height limit of the child restraint system as set by the manufacturer. A child may continue to be properly secured in a child restraint system that is rear-facing until the child reaches the weight or height limit of the child restraint system as set by the manufacturer, as recommended by the American academy of pediatrics. (b) A child who is not properly secured in a rear-facing child restraint system in accordance with (a) of this subsection and who is under the age of four years must be properly secured in a child restraint system that is forward-facing and has a harness until the child reaches the weight or height limit of the child restraint system as set by the manufacturer. A child may continue to be properly secured in a child restraint system that is forward-facing and has a harness until the child reaches the weight or height limit of the child restraint system as set by the manufacturer, as recommended by the American academy of pediatrics. (c) A child who is not properly secured in a child restraint system in accordance with (a) or (b) of this subsection and who is under four feet nine inches tall must be properly secured in a child booster seat. A child may continue to be properly secured in a child booster seat until the vehicle lap and shoulder seat belts fit properly, typically when the child is between the ages of eight and twelve years of age, as recommended by the American academy of pediatrics, or must be properly secured with the motor vehicle's safety belt properly adjusted and fastened around the child's body. app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.61.687

Messed up, what happens if they never pass 4'9" ..lol

My daughter grew out of the 5 point harness or I would have done it longer than 4. She just has a tall father and met all weight requirements plus she is almost 5. I wanted to do it closer to 6, but she didn’t fit safely anymore.

It's about time I see people drive around their kids bouncing around the seats standing up and everything it's crazy

This is poorly worded. You do not have to put your 4 year old in a booster seat. That's just the bare minimum of safety. If they haven't exceeded weight or height limits, they can continue to be in a seat with a harness and even rear-facing, and it would be safest for them.

Emmanuel Rodrigueza

Manuel Lupercio

Joanna Valdez

Eduardo Pineda Lisa Budge

And remember folks. Motorcycle cops write seatbelt tickets

When I was a baby and child there was no car seats. We did not wear helmets or knee pads. We went down metal slides in the park in the summer when they were hot as hell and played on the monkey bars that were metal. WOW I wonder how we all survived. I see people riding in the back of pick ups including dogs. Nobody does shit. Kids do not have seat belts in school busses or hell even public transportation.