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- From: llf@alice.att.com (alice!llf)
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- Subject: Re: Car seat battles (13 mos)
- Message-ID: <24260@alice.att.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:53:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24260
- References: <92314.100920CLH7@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- Organization: New Jersey State Home for Bewildered Kittens
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- In article <92314.100920CLH7@psuvm.psu.edu> Chris Himes <CLH7@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >Over the last month Doug (13.5 mos) has developed a fierce determination not
- >to get into his carseat. . . Any hints in the meantime to make things easier?
-
- This worked for our 2 year old:
-
- The concept of "crashing" having been well developed from playing with other
- kids... I was watching a videotape, and had neglected to notice that the last
- segment on the tape was about wearing seatbelts, so the little one got to sit
- with me and watch the crash test dummies with and without seat belts. She
- told me that crashing was bad, I agreed, and then pointed out that in the
- show dolls without seatbelts were "broken, doctor no fix", and dolls with
- seatbelts were okay or "broken, doctor fix", and that her car seat is the
- equivalent to a seat belt. (Degrees of broken-ness in our house seem to be:
- fix, mommy/daddy fix, doctor fix, and doctor no fix.)
-
- Voila! No more fighting the car seat (except when she's fighting getting
- in the car in the first place). And now she insists that everyone in the
- car get belted in as soon as they get in the car.
-
- Lynda
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