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High-Back Booster Combination Car Seat With 5-Point Harness

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Updated March 24, 2011

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Definition: High-Back Booster Combination Car Seat With 5-Point Harness

This type of car seat is basically a combination seat that can be used as a forward-facing car seat with harness straps until your child reaches the harness strap height and weight limits and can then become a belt-positioning booster seat.

  • Can often be used by children who are at least 22 to 25 pounds, when used with harness straps.
  • Harness straps should be at or above child’s shoulders.
  • Harness chest clip should be at child's armpit level.
  • Remove harness when child reaches the seat's harness weight (40 to 85 pounds) and height limit and use the vehicle's adult lap and shoulder belt across child (belt-positioning booster), although keep in mind that the new car seat recommendations of American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recommend that kids stay in a harnessed seat as long as possible.

Featured High Back Booster Seats car seats:

adapted from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Examples:
We just removed the harness straps from our first grader's high-back booster seat and will continue to use it as a booster seat now until she is ready for regular seat belts.

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