Brenda Rose

I completely agree with both Shyrley and Sheila on this one. It's one of my
pet peeves that when my babies screamed while riding on long trips if I took
them out of the carseat to breastfeed or just to hold, I became a
law-breaker. Now my 12 yos doesn't want to wear his seatbelt, and if we are
stopped for that (it's a level 1 offense or something like that, means that
we can be stopped for that reason) the cost would be about $100. I've told
him that I can't *make* him wear it, but if we get a ticket for that he'll
have to come up with the money. That would probably mean selling his PS2.
He still needs reminding (I just ask when we get in, "Everyone have the
seatbelt on?") but he isn't fussing. I hope this is more explaining a
natural consequence than coercion!

Sheila, it might not take 5 years with sledding. A 20 yo student at our
local college was killed in Dec. sledding on the hill at the school. She
and another girl went out after studying for finals, on a tube, ran into a
scoreboard pole. She hit her head. It was a freak accident, but it really
struck me hard. I have a 20yod who is away at college too - I just couldn't
imagine getting that phone call... Also, it happened at 11 pm (the hill is
well-lit). My family had just been there for the first time ever "after
dark" until about 7 that same evening. <<ooh, shivers>>

FYI, they shut the hill down for sledding "out of respect for the family"
but with the letters in the newspaper and city councilmembers asking for it
to reopen, it opened up when school started back last week (the next real
snowfall of the season happened then, too!). The scoreboard has been
removed and no more sledding at night.

Brenda Rose

Shyrley

Brenda Rose wrote:

> I completely agree with both Shyrley and Sheila on this one. It's one of my
> pet peeves that when my babies screamed while riding on long trips if I took
> them out of the carseat to breastfeed or just to hold, I became a
> law-breaker. Now my 12 yos doesn't want to wear his seatbelt, and if we are
> stopped for that (it's a level 1 offense or something like that, means that
> we can be stopped for that reason) the cost would be about $100. I've told
> him that I can't *make* him wear it, but if we get a ticket for that he'll
> have to come up with the money. That would probably mean selling his PS2.
> He still needs reminding (I just ask when we get in, "Everyone have the
> seatbelt on?") but he isn't fussing. I hope this is more explaining a
> natural consequence than coercion!
>
> Sheila, it might not take 5 years with sledding. A 20 yo student at our
> local college was killed in Dec. sledding on the hill at the school. She
> and another girl went out after studying for finals, on a tube, ran into a
> scoreboard pole. She hit her head. It was a freak accident, but it really
> struck me hard. I have a 20yod who is away at college too - I just couldn't
> imagine getting that phone call... Also, it happened at 11 pm (the hill is
> well-lit). My family had just been there for the first time ever "after
> dark" until about 7 that same evening. <<ooh, shivers>>
>

Maybe they'll ban cars. 40,000 Americans are killed in them every year. Hundreds of thousands injured. Not county pedestrians and cyclists run over. How come they focus on the 'rare' accidents and
over-llook the big whopping death rate?
As for helmets, car drivers are more likely to have a head injury in an accident than a cyclist. Helmets for cars next?

Shyrley

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In a message dated 1/11/03 9:43:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rosebl@... writes:

> It's one of my
> pet peeves that when my babies screamed while riding on long trips if I
> took
> them out of the carseat to breastfeed or just to hold, I became a
> law-breaker.

I have done this and run across road blocks that check things like seat
belts, registration etc and believe me they never give tickets. They usually
see me breastfeeding and wave my husband by. LOL. Of course that was a
couple of years ago.
Pam G.


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