California Mandates Car Seat For Kids Up To 8 Years Old

Important notice to us California Dads: starting 1/1 of this year (2012), a new law signed by the Governor says that you have to have your kids in car seats until they are 8 years old, or 4 feet 9 inches tall.  Under the current law, kids have to be in car seats until they are 6 or 60 pounds.  I guess Nate’s gonna have to get comfy in his new seats until 2nd grade.

My wife and I are just in the process of trying to transition Nathan from his infant car seat to a convertible car seat.  In a future post, I’ll talk about the convertible seat we bought, a Britax Boulevard and why we chose it.