wwyd? Took a friend and her two dc to a museum about 1 1/2 hrs from our home yesterday. Friend has a 3yo and 5yo. I have extra car/booster seats at my house and just put them in my ...
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car prior to picking her up so that way she didn't need to bring her own. I get to her house and as she was getting her kids in the car she asked me what I wanted to do with the car/booster seats because her kids don't like sitting him them. I told her that I require all kids under the age of 8 to be buckled into a car/booster seat in my car. She said that she doesn't make them sit in car seats because she has worked at an MRI center and has seen lots and lots of people badly injured by seatbelts and therefore she has never and will never make her kids use one. In the end the kids wore the seatbelts in the car seats, cried for about 20 minutes because they were buckled in and she kept telling them that it was "my" rule and in my car you have to go with my rules. wwyd?
posted May 21st, 2010 at 9:36am in
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- your friend drives 5-21-2010 9:37am
- isn't it the law? your friend sounds like an idiot 5-21-2010 9:37am
- Yes, it is the law and she doesn't think that it should be 5-21-2010 9:38am
- well you were right to insist. and you should never allow your kids to ride with her 5-21-2010 9:39am
- i'd think she was nuts. be pleased with myself that i stuck to my guns. and never carpool with her again. 5-21-2010 9:38am
- you were right. jeez, what a freak! FWIW, I too carry an extra carseat and am always amazed by how many of the families I give rides to don't care about using it 5-21-2010 9:38am
- think to myself "How did I not know my friend was such an idiot before this moment?" 5-21-2010 9:38am
- it's the law, whether she agrees with it or not, and I follow the law (and she's nuts) 5-21-2010 9:40am
- you tell her to drive her own car. you'll meet them there. 5-21-2010 9:42am
- and how did you never know this about her? 5-21-2010 9:42am
- yup 5-21-2010 9:45am
- she sounds crazy. 5-21-2010 9:42am
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