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Join Us for a Twitter Party with Safety 1st on 5/27 at 8pm

May 26, 2015May 27, 2015 by Jen Rabulan-Bertram

Join us for a Twitter party! We’re partying on Wednesday night, May 27th at 8pm with our friends at Safety 1st. Together with several of my fellow bloggers, we’ll be celebrating parenting victories and talking about the very cool Step and Go from Safety 1st. If you have some parenting victories to share, be sure to keep it real with us and join the conversation at #StepAndGoParent.

If you don’t already follow me, be sure to follow me on Twitter @jenrab, and of course, follow our gracious hosts: @Safety1st.

Full disclosure: This is a sponsored post and I am being compensated for sharing this information. As always, all opinions on NKT are my own.

IIHS Rates Best and Worst Booster Seats

September 8, 2010 by Jen Rabulan-Bertram

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released its latest reports on children’s booster seat evaluations. With safety in mind, IIHS, a non-profit organization funded by auto insurers, carries out research and produces ratings for passenger vehicles, as well as for certain consumer products like booster seats. In reading the report, it’s not just the seat that’s important, it’s how the seat and seatbealt fit the child. Most booster seats, unlike carseats, utilize a vehicle’s seatbelt. Carseat.org (link to an informational PDF) says booster seats are typically used by children 4 until 10.

According to IIHS, it’s important to note that the Institute doesn’t conduct vehicle crash tests to evaluate boosters because boosters don’t do the restraining in a crash. It’s the fit of the belt that’s important. A good booster routes the lap belt across a child’s upper thighs and positions the shoulder belt at midshoulder.

IIHS says that this year’s top-rated boosters outnumber ones that they don’t recommend. Brands such as Britax, Chicco, Clek, among others make the list. Read more to find out which seats make IIHS’ list.

Spotted at BlogHer

July 28, 2009 by Jen Rabulan-Bertram

While at BlogHer, I had the chance to peruse the Expo floor a few times. The Expo floor was basically a trade show for women bloggers that featured products to be used in the kitchen to spiffy vacuums to gold kiwis (based on Tweets, seemed like the belle of the ball!) and of course, the latest and greatest kids’ products.
Lucky me, I got to check out a few products that I’ve blogged about here on NKT.

I took a look at the Complete Air Car Seat that features Safety 1st’s new Air Protect technology. As I envisioned, it’s a sleek-looking car seat that has the hard-to-miss side head cushions. The pictures of this car seat certainly don’t do it any justice, especially the cool brown and orange colored Complete Air car seat which first caught my attention. I liked that it’s not a huge seat, like the one we currently own. This car seat has definitely piqued my interest!

I also spotted the Disney Netpal, the kid-friendly laptop that I blogged about last month. Again, it was much cooler in person. It’s as petite as I imagined, but not overly kiddie-centric at all. The rep. at the booth walked me through a lot of its functions and reiterated its kid-friendliness. After speaking to her, I was sold; I actually want one for myself, now At $350, I thought it was a decent deal for what you get. At this day and age, electronics, especially ones that are educational and functional for school-aged kids, are a great, if not imperative, investment.

Safety 1st launches Air Protect

July 1, 2009July 1, 2009 by Jen Rabulan-Bertram

It’s no surprise that car seat innovation and car seat safety will always elicit a lot of attention from parents. In our case, even though we rarely drive day-to-day, we do, however, drive 6-8 hour stretches quite regularly. (With our next trip slated for tomorrow evening.) Car seat safety, of course, is always paramount, as is comfort for driving long distances. That said, all families have different needs when it comes to the big ticket kid gear such as car seats.

What’s great about the juvenile products market is that it’s always evolving, especially to meet all those different needs while maintaining the highest safety standards. Dorel, the parent company of Safety 1st products, proves just that with its latest innovation.

air protect

Earlier this week, Dorel announced the launch of Air Protect, a new safety feature that was developed to protect children in the event of side impact collisions. Dorel brought in the big guns for their latest innovation: the company worked together with Kettering University’s Crash Safety Center to develop Air Protect, which, essentially puts a layer of air protection around the child’s head.

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