Daddy Troy gives a booster car seat review on the new toddler car seat from The First Years. The car seat is evaluated for convenience, design, and booster seat safety. How does this child seat compare to other car booster seats? Does it meet Gear Daddy's requirements for car seats? Is this carseat the right upgrade from your current infant or baby car seat? DadLabs Ep. 514 brought to you by BabyBjorn.

 

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By reading Dadlabs Guide to Fatherhood: Pregnancy in Year One you would know that to drive home from the hospital you have to have an infant car seat. Well after that kids graduate to a car seat and then they actually go into a booster seat up until about 57 inches tall. At that point the seat belts in the car are designed to worked for that size body. But between those to phases you use a a booster seat and this one right here is for kids who are between 38 and 57 inches and 30 to 100 pounds.

What I really like about this particular booster seat is that it is a folding booster seat

So check this out. You grab the little green lever on the back and it folds down just like this. WHen it folds down just like this it is nice and compact. It can store easily in the back of your trunk. its also really easy to fold back out again. You don't have to pull any lever for this. You simply go like that and it pulls right out.

The back goes up and down. It has an adjustable head rest but it also has an adjustable full back rest

you'll notice on the back side right here you see that you have these little yellow tabs and if you push these it goes up and down

check it out on this side. the whole unit goes up and down. So you have this full support all the way throughout.

In this particular booster seat the arms fold up. And this does two things. Number one it makes it easier for a kid to get in, but it also makes helps a kid to put the seat belt in the right place. Their body goes in, the seat belt goes over their lap and then these come down.

This one comes in camoflage. It comes in lots of colors. Now, the camoflag could be nice um, beacause your kids spills won't show up on the fabric but your still going to need to remove that fabric cause it can get pretty stinky. So as a result they have made it really easy to remove with these snaps right here sometimes it can be a really convoluted process to remove the fabric from car seats, this one is fairly easy.

What I also like about this particular car seat are the colors. I've already mentioned this a little bit but check this out right here. You've got the green lever which means it folds together. Green means go. You've go this really obvious red portion. This little packet right here goes in there, thats your instruction manual which is really super important not only for safety but for recall information.

You've also got the part right here thats is in red really important where the shoulder strap comes in and you've got these yellow tabs right here that allow you to adjust it up and down.

You know every kid wants to have a cup holder, they want their own accessories for their car seats. These cup holder are really unique. They look a little angled down here in the studio but the minute they get into a seat, check that out, they are now perfectly horizontal and your going to get a lot less spills.

This booster seat works with cars that have booth a lap belt and a shoulder belt. Since Airplanes don't have a shoulder belts you won't be able to bring this on the airplane. So be forewarned.

So thats the Compass Delux Folding Booster Seat from the First Years. You can get it at all the Big Box Stores for around sixty or seventy dollars. We've reviewed a lot of car seats and booster here at dadlabs so if you like this review go over to Dadlabs.com to the videos page and we have a whole dedicated section to car seats.

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