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2011 Honda Odyssey First Look Review Part II: The Ultimate Family Truckster

CPSDarren — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:08:43 +0000

In Part I of my review of the 2011 Honda Odyssey, I covered the child seating and safety aspects of this new minivan pretty extensively. This part will touch on some of the performance, electronics and luxury features. Most of these aspects will be thoroughly discussed in mainstream media reviews and on other websites and blogs, so [...]

2011 Honda Odyssey First Look Review Part I: Kids, Family and Safety

CPSDarren — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:02:42 +0000

Are you tired of 7-passenger vehicles that can’t fit all your kids and cargo? Sick of wagons and vans that lack features found in luxury cars? Well now your troubles are over! The rumours you’ve heard. The videos you’ve seen. It has arrived! Hi folks, CPSDarren here, to tell you that the 2011 Honda Odyssey [...]

IIHS Releases New Booster Seat Evaluations: 28 Models are Best Bets or Good Bets!

CPSDarren — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:32:04 +0000

The IIHS has just released ratings for boosters in regard to how well they are likely to fit your child. It’s been almost a year since Kecia commented on their last round of tests. No doubt, manufacturers and industry groups will be issuing their responses soon, too. You can see some of the previous responses [...]

The Power of Women

CPSDarren — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:19:13 +0000

I hope you will enjoy some inspirational poetry from my wife, who previously wrote some prose for the blog at the start of this year. This poem was an entry for a contest Honda sponsored in conjunction with the Variety’s Power of Women Event, presented by Lifetime. Unfortunately, since she is not a regular contributor to the blog, her entry on my [...]

KIM 2010 Updates and News, Part 2

KETCHUPQUEEN — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:11:49 +0000

Hey there! This is Anne (ketchupqueen) again, concluding the news and updates that we were given at the 2010 Kidz In Motion Conference in Ft. Worth, TX. (You can see Part 1 here.) Thanks again to Christa (celtic1885) for her help with pictures, fact-checking, and everything else! Evenflo shared some upcoming updates with us during the [...]

KIM 2010 Updates and News, Part 1

KETCHUPQUEEN — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:35:28 +0000

Howdy, all y’all! Greetings from Dallas/Ft. Worth TX, where I have been attending the 2010 Kidz in Motion Conference, or KIM, an annual gathering focused entirely on Child Passenger Safety (yes, I know some other conferences prefer another acronym; here at KIM, we’re still saying CPS.) I’m Anne, also known as ketchupqueen on the car-seat.org [...]

Buckle Up Takes Center Stage at Smithsonian

Heather (murphydog77) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:06:42 +0000

Two of the most influential characters in modern American advertising history were recently inducted into my favorite museum, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Vince and Larry, the crash test dummies from the ‘80s and ‘90s made it cool to wear seatbelts by showing us with humor how dangerous it is to [...]

Chicco KeyFit Strada: A Review Stile Italiano

Heather (murphydog77) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:17:16 +0000

Booster seats are an important step after a child outgrows a harnessed seat because they aren’t big enough to fit into an adult seatbelt. A booster seat raises the child up so that the lap portion of the lap/shoulder belt falls across the bony hips, not the soft, easily injured abdomen. High back boosters, like [...]

Guest review: Maxi Cosi Rodi XR

skaterbabscpst — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:24:21 +0000

My impressions: The Maxi Cosi Rodi XR is very sturdy seat with nice deep headwings. The cup holder is excellent, one of the best designs I’ve seen, it’s easy to install and remove and the design makes it very stable – thus far we’ve had NO spilled drinks, and most cups & water bottles fit. The seat is easy [...]

Paw Paw Paradise Playground

CPSDarren — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:16:23 +0000

Last year it was so hot in Paw Paw, we decided to go again! This time, I needed a couple models for comparing the new Britax Marathon 70 to the current Britax convertibles. A couple moderators from Car-Seat.Org joined me again and I also asked a couple forum members from the area who had expressed interest [...]