Winter is approaching, and many parents will wear thick down jackets or other fluffy clothing for their children in order to keep their children warm in the cold weather. However, you know what? These clothes are a killer in the car seat! Padding in fluffy clothing, such as down jackets, is suddenly released in the event of a vehicle collision, causing seat belts to suddenly loosen and no longer act as restraints, increasing the risk of injury to children. In order to ensure the safety of your child, the correct choice of clothing is essential for the safety of the car seat. So, how can you tell if your child's coat is suitable for wearing in a car seat? Minyan Cui, Chief Representative and Executive Director of Global Child Safety Group China, offers a simple test methodology. First, have your child sit in the car seat in a jacket and tighten the restraints.
Then, gently pinch the restraint belt with two fingers, if you are not able to pinch the excess bondage, it means that the restraint is tight. Next, unbuckle the restraint belt, lift your child out of the seat and remove the coat. Then, get your child back into the car seat and fasten the restraints. At this time, without adjusting the restraint belt, use two fingers to gently pinch the restraint belt, if you can pinch the excess restraint belt, then it means that the coat taken off is too thick and the restraint belt cannot really restrain the child. At this time, it is necessary to take off the child's coat and then let the child use the car seat. In addition to down jackets, other fluffy or smooth fabric cold clothing, cotton clothing, etc. are also not suitable for wearing on safety seats. Therefore, in the cold winter, we must pay extra attention to the safety of children.
Choose clothing that is close-fitting, less fluffy and has a rough fabric to ensure that the seat belt restricts your child correctly. In this way, the child is better protected even in the event of an accidental collision. Children's safety is the most important, let's create a warm and safe winter for children together. With the arrival of winter, many parents often dress their children warmly in order to protect their children from the cold, but this often affects the safety of their children in the car. According to research by The American Academy of Pediatrics, if a child gets in a car wearing a thick coat, seat belts may not protect the child in the event of a car accident, and may even make the child more dangerous.
So, how to keep your child warm and safe in the car seat in winter? First of all, how to choose a car seat. When purchasing a car seat, it is recommended to choose a type that can be preheated and has a constant temperature. These car seats have low moisture and internal padding blocks cold air and prevents your child from feeling too cold in the car. When using a car seat, the carriage part of the infant seat can be brought indoors when not in use. This keeps the seat at room temperature and prevents your child from feeling too cold when using the car seat. Secondly, when dressing your child, avoid wearing a coat that is too thick. Some studies have shown that once a child wears a coat that is too thick, in the event of a car accident, the seat belt may be blocked by the coat, unable to fit snugly on the child's body, reducing safety.
If your child is wearing a thick jacket and gets into the car, he or she should take it off and get into the car seat. If you feel cold, you can always have a blanket in the car or take off your coat and put it over your child. However, be sure to fasten the restraint straps in the car seat before covering it with a blanket or jacket. Finally, it is important to note that before the child sits in the car seat, parents must check whether the fabric of the clothes is too smooth and whether the padding of the clothes is fluffy. If the child wears a fluffy and smooth coat, parents must take them off before sitting in the car seat and fastening the seat belt. This prevents thick clothing and coats from affecting the fastening of the belt and ensures the safety of the child in the car seat.
To sum up, when children go out in winter, parents should choose the right safety seat, avoid children wearing too thick coats, pay attention to the fastening of seat belts, and ensure that children are warm and safe in the car. As parents, we need to provide a comfortable environment for children to travel and spend a warm and safe winter in a car seat.