Car seats bring out the strangest parenting style

I may be a little blunt here, but if it's my time to go I'd rather die right away than suffer or be a burden to my family. Does wearing a seat belt mean you walk away without a scratch? Absolutely not. Don't put your hopes on a man made object. Use your best judgement. Oh, and it is a little weird how news articles these days end with the status of the driver/passengers seat belt use when covering a vehicle accident.

Continued: You can teach someone to use a stove responsibly, when you are a passenger in a car you are at the mercy of the driver of your car, and more importantly all the other cars on the road. Teaching a child to use a stove responsibly is a good like lesson; letting them run around the vehicle teaches them nothing (other than seat belts aren’t important) and greatly increases their chance of a severe injury or even death in even a relatively minor accident.

No matter how good of a parent someone is otherwise I would have a hard time describing anyone who lets their kids out of their car seat on the highway as a great mother. I have a friend who's 5 years old daughter was killed in an accident that otherwise would have been minor because she was thrown from a vehicle when a parent unbuckled her just for a few minutes to get out some toys. They will never be able to forget that mistake. She would have been unharmed and still around had she been buckled in. A parent’s first job is to keep their kids safe. Traffic fatalities are the number one cause of death for people between 1 and 20 years old. By not buckling in your kids you are not only risking their health and life in the short term, you are also teaching them that wearing a seat belt isn’t that important when they get older and start driving for themselves. Also, comparing being buckled in a car seat to using the stove is totally irrelevant. You can teach someone to use a stov

I think that you should always have your children in the required safety device for their age for this reason: You cannot trust the other vehicles and people on the road. It's too uncertain to leave your child's safety to chance. But, I think things like letting them use the stove, or scissors is fine because they are under your supervision and most, if not all, unpredictable factors have been removed (unless someone runs into your house and pushes them down while they are holding scissors, or knocks the pot of boiling whatever off the stove).