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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has long hosted several events each month for parents to ensure their children’s car seats are installed correctly. Usually, these events are in person, but they experimented with virtual options during the pandemic lockdown in 2020. Recently, they published research showing that the virtual option was effective, and have continued to offer it.

More than 70% of child car seats are not installed correctly, according to data from the National Digital Car Seat Check Form database in 2023 . The data shows that common mistakes include: installing the seat too loosely, and making the harness that holds a child to the seat too loose. Nat

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