I was asked what I wanted as a gift when I was pregnant. I said a car seat for my baby. This was five years ago, before the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act was enacted.
At the time, there were so many things I didn’t know about child car seats. What I knew about them was limited to what was available in the malls and what the salesperson could tell me.
My ignorance became glaringly clear when I posted a photo of my then 2-week-old baby in the car seat. Well-meaning parents commented on the photo and told me that my baby was too small for it.
When you are a parent who’s trying very hard to do everything for your child, such comments sting. It feels like criticism.
But one p…
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