Clek has developed a great reputation over the last few years for their innovative, safety-focused car seats and boosters and the Clek Oobr booster seat is no exception. Kids and parents love it! Diono also determined that certain Cambria, Monterey, Radian, Everett, and Solana, model child restraints do not fully comply with paragraphs S5.5.2, S5.5.2(m)(ii), S5.6.1.7(ii), and S5.8.2, of FMVSS No. 213, Remember: Kids aren’t ready to ride with the seatbelt alone until they can fit properly. That’s usually between 10 and 12 years old. Sadly we see many more serious injuries in school age kids riding in the seatbelt than in young kids in car seats. If you install the AACE with LATCH, you have the option to recline the booster – it doesn’t need to be flush with the car’s seat with LATCH. For families who want the best booster seat for a sleeping child, be sure to consider this one. Overall, the Nuna AACE has to be one of the comfiest booster seats around!

Diono won prestigious iF DESIGN AWARDS in product design for the Monterey® 5iST FixSafe™ chosen by the 98-member jury, made up of independent experts from all over the world in 2021 and 2022. Diono concludes by stating its belief that the subject noncompliances are inconsequential as they relate to motor vehicle safety and its petitions to be exempted from providing notification of the noncompliance, as required by 49 U.S.C. 30118, and a remedy for the noncompliance, as required by 49 U.S.C. 30120, should be granted. The material used for Diono Monterey XT’s energy-absorbing foam is the Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) which offers more durability than the Expanded Polyethylene (EPE) used in Diono Cambria 2.The Oobr is one of the narrowest booster seats available, so it’ll give you a good chance of fitting 3-across. With 9 years until expiration, it’s a great option for families with a younger sibling to pass it down to. Some of the premium fabrics offer serious stain protection to make clean-up easy with the inevitable spilled milk after the drive through. If that’s not as important to you, the Drift fabric is still nice and quite a bit cheaper. But there’s no clear winner between these two products, they’re just different beasts. To get the tiny fold, it requires a lot more fiddling and a multi-step adjustment process every time you unfold and set it up. In exchange for weight, the hifold doesn’t have lower anchors and doesn’t feel nearly as sturdy. If you like a lot of the features of the Diono Monterey XT and 4DXT above but just feel like you don’t need quite as much booster seat, the Diono Cambria 2 might be a good balance for you. You can see my daughter happily riding in the pink one above.

Child restraints could be recalled for safety reasons. You must register this restraint to be reached in a recall. Send Here in the US, definitive voice for millennial parents, The Bump, announced the winners of its ninth annual The Bump Best of Baby Awards, honoring the most outstanding baby and new parent products for 2021. These are both great booster seats and they work as different tools in our family’s toolbox. Diono Monterey 5iST vs Baby Trend PROtect 2-in-1So if there is a chance to keep your child in a convertible or combination car seat, just do it for his/her safety. In their press release in August 2018, the AAP emphasized that each transition (either from rear-facing to forward-facing or from forward-facing to booster car seat) makes the child less protected. Best Booster Seats: What Are They and How to Choose Them? The booster seat comes in assortments of colors which the parent can choose from to suit their child’s preference or style. Parents can still expect the awesome Monterey® features they know and love, with height and width expansion providing up to 85% more room to grow throughout the 8 years of use from 40 - 120 lb and up to 63” tall.