Facts.....

Here are just some interesting facts that I wanted to share :)

Based on several statistical sources these are your odds of dying from accidental occurrences over the course of your lifetime -

The odds of:

    * dying on a roller coaster: 1 in 300,000,000

    * dying from a shark attack: 1 in 300,000,000

    * dying from a dog bite: 1 in 20,000,000

    * dying in an airplane crash: 1 in 9,200,000

    * dying from food poisoning: 1 in 3,000,000

    * dying skydiving roughly: 1 in 100,000

    * dying in a tornado: 1 in 60,000

    * dying in a drowning: 1 in 1,100

Your odds of dying in a car crash, over the span of your entire life at any age 

     are somewhere between 1 and 50 and 1 and 100. 

 Why put your children at a higher risk to become one of these statistics, follow not only the recommendations and guidelines, but the law as well. Keep your children safe and properly buckled in the proper restraints. It kills me to see babies forward facing when under 2 years old and at the minimum weight to be forward facing, When I see a toddler in a booster seat even at the minimum weight and when I see a child without a booster seat when they are under the age of 8. 

 You hear excuse after excuse why parents don't follow or only follow to the minimum....

*My child gets car sick facing backwards

*My child's legs are too long to rear face

*I can't see my child

*My car is just too small to rear face

*My baby is chunky so they can forward face

and those are just a few excuses I have heard! The key word though EXCUSES!!

This is something I am so passionate about and something I will continue to share with everyone whether some hate it, appreciate it or think I am annoying for preaching it. I wont say I am perfect because I had no idea about this stuff when Rylee was a baby. I was told all of this and couldn't believe I had turned my child forward facing at 10 months because I had a chubby baby and she had hit the minimum weight to be forward facing. There is no reason to make those odds higher for your child all because of stupid excuses! Parents, myself included, are so worried about a fall and are quick to jump to their rescue or always telling their kids "That can hurt you, don't do that." Why with something we have such control over that we don't do EVERYTHING we can to prevent those odds from raising when in a car?