Mom's Devastating Facebook Post Shows Why Car Seat Safety Matters

Car seat safety can be a frustrating topic for many parents, but it’s an important one. A recent report published in The Journal of Pediatrics showed that 43 percent of kids killed in car accidents aren’t properly restrained.   On May 29, Christine Miller of the vlog Growing Humans shared a devastating story that underscores the importance of child passenger safety.  Miller’s son Kyle died in a car accident 12 years ago to the day at the age of 3. The mom believes that her son may have survived if he had been properly restrained in a car seat with a five-point harness instead of in a booster seat. In a post that appeared on the car seat safety Facebook page Car Seat Consultants, Miller wrote: “Losing Kyle was like being plunged straight into hell, a pain and agony beyond description ... I’ve come to realize that this kind of loss is not something you ever get over or make peace with, it’s something you eventually learn how to contain in a box of fire inside your heart, and keep a lid on so that you can function on a day to day basis. But sometimes certain things will open that box, a song, a smell, a flash of a memory and it rages and burns through you anew. It’s a pain I will carry with me until the day I die and can finally be with my sweet son again. I think the hardest part of it all is knowing [how] easily preventable it was. That’s the dagger that twists in my heart.” Miller said she ...
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