There are changes this morning to the guidelines for child car seats. The American Academy of Pediatricians now says that children should ride in the seat rear-facing until they reach the height or ...

COLUMBIA - The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued new guidelines for car seats. The recommendations keep children strapped into seats longer and use age and weight criteria to guide ...

Gone are the days of running to the store with a sweet snoozing infant strapped in his car seat. Now you’ve got a still sweet but not-quite-so-submissive toddler who’s raring to get out of his car ...

(NEW YORK) — On Monday, police in Mankato, Minnesota, responded to a report of a 2-year-old who was found in the middle of the road and still strapped to a car seat. The child, who was uninjured, was ...

INDIANAPOLIS (CONSUMER REPORTS) — After a car crash, most of us know to check for injuries and damage to our vehicles. But what about your child’s car seat? Consumer Reports’ own car seat safety ...

Many laws passed by the Minnesota Legislature this year are set to go into effect Thursday, Aug. 1, including new guidelines on car seats, increased penalties for straw purchases of firearms and a ban ...

Conventional wisdom says that parents should keep children in an infant seat until they’ve outgrown it based on height or weight. But our crash-test results—combined with the fact that many babies ...