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Can someone please explain to me, how it can be that after all these years, state and local police can still do safety inspections of child safety car seats and keep finding that they haven’t been installed properly?  Come on people. What are you thinking?  I admit that some of the safety products seem to be going a little over the deep edge, but child car seats are not one of them.

Booster seats are the same.  Did you know that children in booster seats are 59% less likely to be injured in the event of a car crash than children who are not wearing them? Its simply because cars and seat belts are not designed for children. They are designed for adults and without booster seat its difficult for a child to get a fit that will protect them. But not all seats fit the same and we keep buying them they’re  a one size fits all concept.  Again we need to use child safety products properly of they won’t help.  But then, sometimes I still hear about children who are not even wearing seat belts in the first place.  My son was always a big kid and by the time he was 7 it was a constant battle to keep him in the back seat, because apparently, with the advent of air bags the front seat isn’t safe for kids.  But let me tell you something I discovered while digging through the statistics.  Of all the children who were reportedly harmed by air bags in the front seat (it was about 22 of them at the time, all but one were not wearing a seat belt.  That means that when the airbags went off, their heads were already in contact with the dashboard.

When will we ever learn?

Did you know that every 40 seconds, somewhere in the United States, a child goes missing? It’s every parent’s worst nightmare and it’s happening with terrible frequency.  Child safety is everyone’s concern.

At an event happening in Plano Texas, called the Life Print Child Safety Event, parents had the opportunity to obtain Biometric Fingerprinting and a DNA Identification Kit for their children. If you’ve never heard of it, Biometric Fingerprinting is the most recent technology innovation for fingerprinting and it’s used by the law enforcement community, federal agencies and the Military.

The advantage offered by biometric finger printing for children is that their prints are entered into the FBI database as soon as the child is reported missing and they’re immediately available to every law enforcement agency in the country.

I’m a mother. I can’t imagine anything more horrible than having my baby go missing – and my baby right now is a 200 lb 18 year old who towers over me – but I know the gut wrenching feelings and the terror this subject raises. But still I have a question about this.

Once my child is found will his fingerprints be removed from the database? Still, all this is after the fact. Its even more important that parents maintain vigilance over their young children- especially when they’re out in public situations where they can easily become distracted