Houdini Car Seat Band.
Many parents who purchase car seats do not know that the center chest clasp is meant to move up and down on the shoulder harness straps. It is not until their own child figures this out, by sliding down the center harness chest clasp and then wiggling out of the top of the car seat- many toddlers will tap their parent on the shoulder, as if to let the parent know they have just mastered the great Houdini escape.
Parents must then find a safe place to pull over and put the child back inside the car seat and continue on with their drive. Until it happens again and again. Most parents will replace the car seat, thinking the car seat they originally purchased is not a safe car seat. Some parents resort to yelling, threatening, spanking, scolding out of pure and total frustration.
It is at this point I was, close to 9 years ago, this was when my now 11 year old daughter figured out how to perform the great Houdini by escaping her car seat every single time I tried to go any where in the car. She would escape and then I would feel that small, slight tap on my right shoulder. After purchasing 4 more car seats for her, it was no long before she figured out how to escape every single one.
I had been purchasing car seats since the early 1980's. I had watched car seats change from plastic seats with plastic inserts, to the t-bar to the fold down bar over the seat. I watched as they changed the plastic, the mold, the fabric and everything else but the one part I was having trouble with "The Center Sliding Chest Clasp". Yes, it is meant to slide down the harness straps. But if you are a parent like I was trying to figure out how to keep my child safe, it carries beyond the financial end to the safety end when you have tried everything and nothing works.
In 2004 I gave birth to my last son, it was not too long after this he too figured out how to slide down the center chest clip and get out of his car seat. I didn't have a cheap car seat either. And it was right then that I decided, after having three (3) children who figured out how to escape out of their car seats, that I needed to take matters in my own hands and see if I could not invent something that would deter my own son. My first son, he was three (3) years old and had mastered how to get out of his car seat, it was at the worst time too. I was pumping gas 21 years ago in the cold dead of the winter. I had an old 1976 car at the time, and the heater took a long time to warm up the car. So I pulled up next to the pump, jumped out and put in $5.00 of gas so we could make it home where it was warm, thinking to myself I would just go out the next day when the sun was out and fill up the tank. As I stood next to the cashier window which was right next to my car. I heard the man from behind the window yell; "Your Car MUM". Not knowing he was speaking to me, as I lay my $5.00 down, looking at no one and trying to turn to my car. I noticed just then that my old car had a very short driver in the front seat. It was my son who was three (3) behind the wheel of the car and he was pushing on the gas peddle. My son had figured out how to escape his car seat by performing the great Houdini Escape. I managed to open the car drivers door and place my foot on the break and stop the car. My son, with a smile on his face said; "Mommy I drove da Car" he was very proud of himself. He was my first Houdini Car Seat master.
Now with the third child. I knew that if I was having this problem their must be other parents in the world with the same problem. So I started to check in to this matter going to all sort of websites, placing calls and even going to the United States Government online website and visiting the free information posted about car seat concerns from other parents. I did find one thing in common with all the websites I did visit and all the reports I did read. Parents were complaining of the car seat center chest clasp. So, I was not the only parent with this problem and concern.
What were all these parents to do? If you have tried everything and to no avail does anything you have tried work, well then what?
One night while watching an old movie, it came to me like a whisper.. a product that could not harm harness straps that would allow a child to remain seated inside their car seat, where they belonged. I stayed up all that night drawling out my design, the next morning I had a pro type completed, now all I had to do was test it out.
The next morning as soon as my little boy had awoke and we were ready to go some where, I used my product on the harness straps and sure enough, he could not get out of his car seat. He started to cry is a matter of fact because he could not get out of his car seat. Then I knew for sure, the pro type I had, just needed to be modified. I did modify my product, I did apply for a patent on my invention, plus now several other products that have followed.
Two (2) years later my Baby Huggables product has been sold to many parents who have Houdini Car Seat escape artist on their hands and do not know what to do. Many parents can not afford to keep purchasing car seats, many have had their car seat inspected, many have followed all the manufactures instructions and still their adorable child, is still able to figure out how to get out of their car seats.
Is this a manufactures problem? Do these manufactures know that the center chest clasp can slide down and children are being injured, some tossed out of moving vehicles, some run over by other cars.. I would think since these parents call the toll free phone number on the car seat itself to make these reports, then yes, they would have to know.
For those parents who have tested the Baby Huggables product, seem to find peace in the fact now their child is secure inside their car seat and can not get out. For those parents who were in fear of Baby Huggables hurting or damaging the shoulder harness straps, I have invented another product called, "Houdini Car Seat Band", this product slides around the shoulder harness straps, after a child has been placed inside their car seat. Once the elastic band has slide around both buttons, then parents are to tighten the harness straps as they normally would do. Because of the tension around the elastic bands, children are unable to force the elastic bands around the big buttons and free themselves out of their car seats. This product can be used on high chairs, strollers, toddler swings, bicycle baby carriers, basically any baby product that is already supplied with shoulder harness straps.
Houdini Car Seat Band will prohibit babies and toddlers from being able to perform the Houdini escape out of their car seats and get free inside the moving car forcing the driver to find a safe place to pull over and place the child back inside the car seat. It is during this time, that while reading through the huge amount of reports concerning the center chest clasp, that children have been injured, even have died.
Let me ask you this. If we know the center chest clasp is meant to move up and down on the shoulder harness straps, and your child can or has figured out how to force this center chest clasp down, and you were driving along with your eyes on the road and did not know your child's center chest clasp is now down in between the legs, what if you had an accident, your child would be tossed inside your car like a rag doll, the force of an accident would toss your child out of the car seat because nothing would of been holding your child inside the car seat. Some manuals I have read even say the center chest clasp is meant to break apart in the case of an accident. Wonderful, it breaks apart- then what on earth would be left holding the child inside the car seat? NOTHING ! You, think nothing holding a child inside a car seat would be safe? Some children are tossed with such force they have been ejected from the vehicle and sometimes on to oncoming traffic. Think for one moment if you were this parent, facing this problem and you now are involved in an accident, your child is now being tossed around inside your car as though he or she was a rag doll. You might think this could never happen to you. But lets look at your car seat, lets take a real close look at the center chest clasp. Can your child move this up and down on the shoulder harness straps, have you ever caught your child out of the car seat, sliding down the center chest clasp or being able to get out of the car seat by sliding down the center chest clasp? If you can relate to any of those questions then the Houdini Car Seat Band could help you keep your child from being able to escape the car seat and get out of the car seat and possibly become injured while you are trying to find an area to pull off to the side of the road and place your child back inside the car seat.
It is a known fact that the manufactures inside every single manual printed will tell you not to put anything on your car seat that did not come with the car seat, this is what they call an after market product. Hum, while doing some checking of my own, via the Internet I soon discovered that there are a lot of after market products sold right here inside the United States that have been approved for patents and that parents use at some point to entertain the child while in the car seat so the parents can drive. I then further checked in to this after market area, wow, some 14, 000 products and counting any parent can add to the car seat for entertainment for the child, not to mention the biggest after market product of all YOUR CHILD. This is right, a child is an after market product, why? Because as it is stated, no after market product can be added to the car seat or it will void the warranty of the car seat.. Hum, no child I have ever known was born inside a car seat. So are children after market products? One would have to really read the find print and wonder like I did, who are the manufactures of these car seats really trying to protect, their tiny riders or themselves?
Houdini Car Seat Band is just that, it is a band that fits snug to hold the straps together so babies and toddlers can not get out of thier car seat and wonder about a moving automobile and possibly become injured or hurt while a parent is trying to pull over to a safe place on the road.
Find out if your own car seat has ever been reported of having a center chest clasp report filed on my website as well.
If you are reading this and you are a parent who faces this huge problem with your own child, then visit my website right now and check out all my products to help parents.
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