Booster Seats

The car seat shelf is where a budget goes to be confused. The same money buys a convertible that starts rear-facing, a harness seat that ends as a backless booster, or a belt-positioning booster with no harness at all — three different products wearing one label. Pick by the shelf tag instead of your child’s

The seat belt is supposed to cross your child’s hips and the middle of their shoulder. On most booster-aged kids, it does neither — the lap belt rides up onto the stomach, and the shoulder belt sits so close to the neck that the child tucks it behind their back. That is the whole job