S/O When did you stop riding in a carseat as a child?

[Lisa85]

With all the talk about carseats lately on this forum it got me thinking when most of us stopped using carseats/boosters. So I'm just curious, when did you stop riding in one?

[LilyGrace]

I was 12-ish.

[onlyzombiecat]

My parents didn't use a car seat or booster for me or my siblings. Most of the time we didn't wear seat belts either.

[Justmee]

I had one until I was 2 and the baby came along and needed it

[bobica]

I never rode in a carseat that I know of. I think we had a car *bed* when I was an infant. Basically a basket for the back seat, and just for a place to put the baby, not for safety so much.

[Ruthla]

Boosters didn't exist when I was a kid- or if they did, my parents weren't aware of their existence.

I was in a "toddler carseat" from the time I could sit up (no reclining infant seats either- just car beds that coudln't be secured very well) until I outgrew it. I was small for my age so I was probably around 5 when I outgrew the seat. Had I outgrown it at age 3 there would have been nothing bigger to "move up" to.

My mom always insisted on seat belts, long before car safety was popularized.

[~MoonGypsy~]

We rode standing up in the back seat of an AMC Rambler. I don't know what they did with us as babies.

[rainbowmoon]

good question! I don't remember ever riding in a carseat! and I definitly never used a booster! I will have to ask my Mom. I'll be 33 later this month.

[moondiapers]

I was in a toddler seat until I was 4, when it folded up on me.

[Dar]

I never did. My daughter was 8, though, and this was when the law didn't require it after 4. Most of her friends, did, too - they were more comfortable and could see better. She was 8 in 2001, FTR...

Dar

[mummyto3girls]

i never rode in a carseat or booster as a kid

[eclipse]

I don't think I ever rode in a carseat. My mom tells a story about me sitting in the front seat next to her when I was a couple of months old. I think I was in one of those infant seats that are sort of like the baby buckets they have now, but weren't made to strap into a car. Anyhow, some one ran a light, she hit the breaks, and the whole seat flipped over onto the floor. Thankfully there were blankets there.

I also used to go to a day care that would take the kids on trips in the back of station wagons. I rode in the back of my mom's station wagon aaaalllll the time, and I loved it. I wish my kids could do it, because it was so much fun. i wouldn't risk their safety, but there's certainly a nostalgia factor when thinking about riding in the wagon with the back window rolled down, or riding in the back of my uncle's pickup truck.

[EdnaMarie]

I'm 30. I was in a box in front of the front passenger seat until I could sit up. Then my sister got put in the box and I was in the back seat. We wore seat-belts as soon as we were big enough, though. Also we used to ride in the back of pickup trucks (though in the 90s we weren't allowed- we just did it on country roads).

[JamesMama]

I was born the year they started mandating car seats for newborns...1984.

I was in a car seat in the front seat from birth (my mom was worried about us choaking) and then I got a booster seat for a time till I was around 2-ish. I remember riding in a kitchen table-type booster seat when I was 3 or 4...but not sure if it counts because it was not approved for cars, it was just brought so I could see out the window.

[BelgianSheepDog]

I remember riding in the booster at age 4, but I just realized that that was only in my mom's car. In the truck and with my grandparents I think I stopped at about 2 or 3.

[kate~mom]

i'm 30 and i was in a carseat until shortly before my second birthday, when my parents' car was stolen with the seat in it. they didn't replace the seat when they got a new car.

[Britishmum]

We never had seat belts in the back of the car, let alone car seats.

[hibana]

I think I was 5.

[mamazee]

I don't think they even had car seats back then. If a car had seat belts in the back seat, it was considered rude to wear them because it was a suggestion that the driver was a bad driver.

Oh how much we've learned!!

[Leylla]

24....

I was in a harnessed seat untill 2 days before I turned 3, and then the baby needed it and I moved into my sheild booster. I was in it till 4 or so.

Steph