New child seat laws

Throw the mites in a cage type trailer and tow em along behind yer. Put a stop to crisps and sweet wrappers all over the place! :P

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Quedos

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Highly dangerous

Is this not a bit strong - in the majority of cases are we not talking about just a booster seat (and if not I thought car seats were fairly universal)

[/quote]but they do not like booster cushions. [/quote]

Why?

[/quote]and every child must have a restraint thereby some families may have to buy bigger cars to accomodate this reg. [/quote]

and why not? -

I have missed out on things myself because of my daughters behaviour.
The other night we were going sailing, she misbehaved, so we didn't go. I certainly regretted it, but if I'd backed down she would never learn.

Oh yes, and getting to school, she walks - I don't believe in going to the 'better school across town', if our local school was that bad it would have been closed down.

Originally Posted by stu369

I really don't want to carry this on way past it's sell by date.
But, what if you want to go more than they do? pretty common eh? ("We're not going to school if you don't put your seat belt on" - "Sounds good to me Dad")

That's a situation that's up to you as a parent to deal with.

I really dont understand how you could possibly mistake the necessary evil that is the government with a benevolant organisation there to make your decisions for you.

[Spiderman]

Interesting thread people, but not having kids myself i dont feel in a poition to comment really as i cn see both sides of the issue here.

However i would say this, why dont govt enforce other road safety legislation more actively before they go passing new equaly difficult to enforce laws.

How about enforcing the mobile phone laws for a start, i'm sure that would save more lives than this silly new law.

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Interesting thread people, but not having kids myself i dont feel in a poition to comment really as i cn see both sides of the issue here.

However i would say this, why dont govt enforce other road safety legislation more actively before they go passing new equaly difficult to enforce laws.

How about enforcing the mobile phone laws for a start, i'm sure that would save more lives than this silly new law.

Squirrel - shhhh.

Originally Posted by Lou M

thats the one i would enforce too

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Interesting thread people, but not having kids myself i dont feel in a poition to comment really as i cn see both sides of the issue here.

However i would say this, why dont govt enforce other road safety legislation more actively before they go passing new equaly difficult to enforce laws.

How about enforcing the mobile phone laws for a start, i'm sure that would save more lives than this silly new law.

Of course you're in a position to comment. You've a sensible head on your shoulders - you already know it'll be difficult to enforce and have little to no benefit to road safety.

It's just another utterly useless peice of legislation that'll do nothing to achieve its claimed goals, but will prove to be another strangle hold over us and our wallets.

Originally Posted by Swiss

Squirrel - shhhh.

Why?