(You should hear a ratcheting sound and the belt will stay locked instead of having slack in it.) One solution to help these older children stay properly positioned in their RideSafer or booster or seat belt is to pull over and switch the seat belt over to automatic locking mode by pulling the shoulder belt all the way out, then letting it back into the seat belt retractor. Sleeping in the car can be really uncomfortable but sometimes kids can’t help but succumb to exhaustion and the motion. How Can Kids Sleep Safely In Their Car Seat? If we had left him in this position and gotten into a crash, he likely wouldn’t have fared well, especially in a side-impact as he is right next to the window sill and window. In this particular case (pictured above), he was 8-years-old.
As the child gets older, gets into a booster-or RideSafer as in this case-or even grown enough to be in the vehicle seat belt, what are parents to do? For these children, you may be able to adjust the recline of the harness restraint to accommodate better neck positioning.)īut big kids fall asleep in the car too. (Head slump can be problematic for newborns or children without adequate head control. When the children are small and still in a 5-point harness, the child is less likely to get so out of position as to be in increased danger.
They don’t wake up with a kink in their neck, like many parents would. While head slump looks might uncomfortable to us, children’s necks are more flexible than ours so for most kids, the head slump is a non-issue. Are there car seat safety issues with the sleep slump? The sleep slump (and, yes, we stopped to reposition him).
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