When my son was little, if he did anything in the car I thought was dangerous or overly annoying, I'd just pull over and sit there in silence until he got fidgety and WANTED to go. Then I'd reiterate the rules and move on. If he started up again (and this included unsnapping his seatbelt), I'd pull over in silence. No attention but also no progress. He learned QUICKLY. This might work with your kids. It can't hurt to try.
My 3½ yo ASD son is unbuckling his and his brother's seatbelt in the car (on the highways) and I can't get him to stop. When I get paid I'm going to get the angel guard but would appreciate any advice on what to do in the meantime.
Thanks,
Maureen
My son does the same thing. I just try to make him really tight, I've also wrapped the buckle with tape after locking it. My son will eventually squirm out of anything though. Now we only take short trips with him or wait till nap time or bed time, In fact this past weekend we went to the beach, we left at 8:00pm bed time and came home at nap time. also i have sat in the back between them and kept them in order.
good luck
I don't have any advice--perhaps some hand figets would keep him
occupied? A social story about it as well? A reward chart, each car ride that
he does NOT unbuckle any belts, he gets a sticker--then after a set amount
of days of stickers, he gets a reward? I don't know what Angel Guard is, but
hopefully that will help you when you get it.
We have a Britax Regent booster (it's huge), it's a harness seat, up to 80 lbs.
It's very expensive, and not feasible for everyone to get. Figured I'd post it
in case anyone else was thinking of it. Our 6 year old could ride in it, so our
little one will get many years out of it. My cousin's son unbuckles, and gets
very hyper in the car, also has seizures. Hearing his stories (he is 3 yrs older
than dd), we decided to get the Regent when we bought dd a new seat.
Hi just an FYI: The Regent had a recall about a couple of months ago. You need to replace the LATCH belt, and change the manual, since some of the ways to use it that Britax in the past are no longer considered acceptable.
Other than that I like my Regent. Dad2Luke&Alan39321.6111458333Are there new Regents being made that have fixed the problem? We were thinking of getting one very soon as I had read great things about it and I want my ds in a 5-point harness for a long time. We got the Marathon as we thought that would solve the problem, but height-wise he is growing out of it - and my dd is growing out of her Roundabout so we need to switch her as well.I like your advice Tzoya. Thankfully we are past that stage and my son will buckle his own seatbelt, (insist he do it hisself) and stays in it. When he was between the ages of 18 months and 4 years, it was a nightmare. He would crawl out of his seatbelt all the time. Thank God we had child saftey locks on our rear doors and windows, because he surely would have been the one to jump out of the car riding down the xpressway going 60 to 70 miles per hour. The only thing I can tell you is to follow Tzoya's advice, however, that may seem impossible when we are constantly on a time schedule and have to get here and there in a timely fashion. However, the saftey of your child far excedes any time schedule you may be on.
Here are two similar topics on our forum, with lots of good suggestions for your predicament.
[QUOTE=snoopywoman]Are there new Regents being made that have fixed the problem? We were thinking of getting one very soon as I had read great things about it and I want my ds in a 5-point harness for a long time. We got the Marathon as we thought that would solve the problem, but height-wise he is growing out of it - and my dd is growing out of her Roundabout so we need to switch her as well.[/QUOTE]
This is just a guess, and maybe the Britax web site could be a final source, but the changes consist of a different LATCH belt, a new mamual and some rubber pads/heet on the seat. I imagine that this would be easy to put into the production lines. BUT you might want to avoid buying old stock. So maybe you need check the Britax site for serial numbers for the effected lots.
We also are using Marathon and the Roundabout similar to you for our two sons. Fortunately, we have not crash tested any of them. snoopywoman: Supposedly the ones made after June (I think) 2007 are
w/ the new instructions etc. You can read about it on the Britax website.
Ours is apparently the new & improved one. I did send out the postcard,
so if by chance ours was part of the recall, they will send what's needed to
me. I was assured it was not part of recall, but ya never know! AND,
from what I read, the recall was something Britax did as a product
improvement--not one that had caused harm or something to a child.
FYI...I ordered mine from BabyCenter (free S&H, no tax for me), and it
came very quickly. We love it, no regrets--and I know we'll get many
years of use from it. Our dd had a wizard or something (can't remember
name) w/ these head wings & they drove her NUTS--screaming fits & bad
times in the car. We had the Roundabout as well when she was younger &
our older dd has the Parkway. Man, I should buy some stock...
THANKS Dad2Luke&Alan for the recall info. I appreciate you posting that.
I had learned of the recall prior to our purchase this summer, thankfully.
We are big Britax fans here ourselves!
Im so glad I dont have this problem yet. My son's 4.5 years old and yells at me to put his seatbelt on
mishy39322.3858912037My ds does insist on having his straps on as well. He can usually do it, but sometimes still has issues (he has huge fine-motor issues). But, there have been 2-3 times when he was having a meltdown that I was SO thankful we had the 5-point restraints that he can NOT undo (again, the fine-motor issue). It was hard getting him in the seat, but once I strapped him in, he knew he couldn't get out and he settled down. This hasn't happened in over a year (and is EXTREMELY rare!) but for those 2-3 times when I was by myself with my toddler (at the time) as well - well, I thanked God for it!
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