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I’m a certified Child Restraint Technician!!

June 9, 2008 by Wendy S

This weekend I took the St. John’s Ambulance course and got certified as a Child Restraint Technician!!!

I had been very diligent about my girls’ carseats and how they were installed and was pretty confident in my ablilities to install a seat before I took the course. But, boy, did I learn a lot!!!
Now when you try to shake my carseats at the belt path, the whole car shakes!! The carseat doesn’t move an inch!!

We did a car seat clinic yesterday and of the 10 seats that came:

  • 1 was forward facing with pool noodles underneath and wiggled all over the place
  • 2 were infant seats at the wrong angle, wiggled all over the place and touched the front passenger seat
  • 1 was rear facing with the forward facing foot down- 1 infant in an infant seat had the harness so loose that the baby would have slipped right out and the chest clip was at it’s stomach and the base was really really loose
  • 1 forward facing seat was too big for the vechicle and we advised the parent to get a new seat (even the senior tech/instructor couldn’t get it installed properly
  • 1 was a forward facing seat that was loose and the tether wasn’t tight enough- there were a few others

but only 1 infant seat was actually insalled propertly!!

I’m so happy that I now know how to do it properly and have the skills to not only install seats but teach the parents how to do it, and why it’s done the way it is.

Any one want some help???

Filed Under: Car Seat Safety, family, Life, mapsgirl Tagged With: safety

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About Wendy S

+Wendy S (also known as @mapsgirl) is a mom to two daughters. They are the inspiration of this blog.Passionate about child passenger safety, Wendy has been a certified Car Seat Technician in Ontario, Canada since 2008.

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When not mapping, Wendy is also a mom to two daughters. They are the inspiration of this blog. Passionate about child passenger safety, Wendy was a certified Car Seat Technician in Ontario, Canada from 2008 to 2020. [Read More …]

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