7. Kim Can’t Figure Out How To Use Car Seat
About a year ago, the media flipped out after Kim posted a photo of her daughter, North, asleep in the backseat with her friend’s daughter since it seemed the experienced mom wasn’t using the kids’ car seats correctly. An expert on car seats analyzed the photo and explained to Yahoo! Parenting what was done wrong.
Apparently, there’s a strap that attaches the head of the car seat to the car, which actually sounds pretty important. It seems that neither of these car seats were installed properly, and weren’t using this strap. Additional issues with the photo that outraged the public are that the car seats are facing forward when they’re both clearly too small and the seats should be facing backward.
The straps that are buckling them in are also too low and too loose. Apparently, these few things are the difference between life and death for a child, and using a car seat improperly is akin to not using one at all. Unfortunately, Kim actually falls into the majority on this one as most Americans don’t know how to use a car seat. It’s almost like car seats don’t even come with a tiny piece of paper that explains how to install and use it in three to six languages.
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