Title: Booster Seats
Feed: CWKN #441, June 10, 2009
Time:  1:32
SUGGESTED LEAD:  BOOSTER SEATS ARE ONE IMPORTANT WAY TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM THE LEADING CAUSE OF INJURY AND DEATH FOR KIDS 5 TO 8 YEARS OF AGE: CAR ACCIDENTS. AND YET ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY, TWO-THIRDS OF BOOSTER SEATS ARE USED INCORRECTLY.  MORE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BOOSTER SEATS ON TODAY’S CONNECT WITH KIDS.     
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NATS: buckling seats

NARR:  … KIDS DON’T LIKE THEM …  (:02)

SOT:  Edgar Magdaleno, 10 years old  (:05)
“I think they’re not comfortable.”

NATS:  more buckling

SOT:  Edgar Magdaleno, 10 years old 
“You feel like a total brat.”

NARR:  … AND PARENTS SAY BOOSTER SEATS ARE CONFUSING TO INSTALL …  (:03)

SUPER: Maricela Magdaleno, Mother  (:14)
“I’ve attempted to do it myself, but now after the demonstration I see that it’s very different.” (:06)

NARR: ACCORDING THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, TWO-THIRDS OF BOOSTER SEATS ARE BEING USED INCORRECTLY … MAKING THEM AS INEFFECTIVE AS REGULAR ADULT SEAT BELTS … AND THAT CAN BE DANGEROUS FOR KIDS. (:12)

NATS:  “Rather than acting as a shoulder belt and crossing his actual shoulder, it’s cutting into his neck.  He could be decapitated , actually.”

NARR: EXPERTS SAY AUTO SEATBELTS WON’T FIT PROPERLY UNTIL A CHILD IS FOUR-FEET-NINE-INCHES TALL AND WEIGHS EIGHTY POUNDS … USUALLY AROUND AGE EIGHT.  (:10)

SUPER:  Amarjeet Rai Car Seat Educator (:56)
“The only thing the booster does is lift the child higher so that now the shoulderbelt doesn’t ride into the child’s neck.  And so that the lap belt actually stays on the child’s lap and not the abdomen.”

NARR: WHAT’S MORE … RESEARCHERS SAY MORE THAN NINETY PERCENT OF CHILDREN AGE FOUR THROUGH EIGHT WHO ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN AN ACCIDENT ARE NOT IN A BOOSTER SEAT.  (:09)

NATS:  CRASH TEST

NARR:  SO, THE NEXT TIME YOUR CHILD SAYS …  (:02)

SOT:  Tiana Gutierrez, 5 years old (1:18)
“It makes me feel trapped.”

NARR:  TELL HER YOU’RE SORRY … BUT DON’T GIVE IN.  (:03)

SOT:  Amarjeet Rai, Car Seat Educator/Trainer
“You’re the parent, so you have to think about their safety.  That’s why you’re the parent and they’re the child.”

NARR:  I’M STACEY DEWITT FOR CONNECT WITH KIDS.  (:03)

NATS: buckling seats

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