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With all the added expenses babies bring, it’s nice to know that you can fly them across the country to see grandma and grandpa without having to pay $350 for them to have their own seat. If they were to have their own seat, you’d have to travel with the car seat, which is another thing to carry and means you might have to pay to check in an extra bag that you can no longer fit on board. It sounds complicated, right? But the National Transportation Safety Board argues it’s much safer. They’ve recommended to the Federal Aviation Administration yet again that every passenger – even babies – must have their own seat on an airplane. This time, they’re referencing a specific crash to prove their point. Continue reading »
Car seats are the only truly essential piece of baby equipment — or so we’ve been told. You can’t leave the hospital with your baby without one, and in many states kids are required to be in a booster seat in the back until they are well over four feet tall.
But authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt looked at the data for their new book “SuperFreakonomics” and found out that car seats do only slightly better than plain old seat belts in protecting kids over the age of two. Continue reading »
When I saw the press release about Babies R Us’ Great Trade-In Event, my first reaction was “What-EV-ERRR.” My impression had been that they were trying to get people to turn in recalled products for a measly, paltry 20 percent off a new purchase.
As I have written before, my kids slept/are sleeping in a recalled Jardine crib we purchased at Babies R Us. The process to replace it under the recall is as follows: Continue reading »
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