Thread: Car seats in Russia

My expertise is in car seats (I'm a child passenger safety technician and have 6 kids of my own in car seats), so I am very curious about car seats in Russia. How would you say "car seat" (Meaning a child's seat.) in Russian? Do kids in Russia usually use them? How long is normal for rear-facing? In a harness? Do they use booster seats?

Okay, I did some googling. It looks like детское автокресло is what is used to mean "car seat". Correct?

yes, it is correct. It is the most usable word - детское автокресло.

детское сиденье is more informal and much widely used. I have two of them for both my kids. I tried to use rear-facing for my daughter seat (she is 1 y.o.) but she doesn't like it and get boring very fast. But when she looks forward she rather enjoys a trip. I had a couple of long trips with her with summer (more than 1000 km each) and she was ok during the whole way in her seat. My son is 9 y.o. so he almost don't need a child seat already. But by the Russian law a kid must be in a seat untill 12 y.o. or if his weight is less than 35 kg. My son's weight is 32kg so he is planning to get rid of the seat soon.

and in our Law this is: детское удерживающее устройство

I wonder if laws in Ukraine are different or if we are just ignorant. None of my friends with kids had special car seats, and I hasten to assure you that all these kids survived to their preteen years just fine.
Undoubtedly, such car seats will be getting more and more popular, as the old mentality gets weaker and families income and awareness grow, but still sitting in the kids seat until you are 12 (twelve!) seems a bit extreme.

but for 12 years, people don't use a real seat = for this age this is just a pillow

PS = now in Moscow lenght of traffic jams are above 1 MEGAmeter
this is a hell especially for child in детских удерживающих устройствах...

В Чикаго ребёнка не выпустят из родильного дома, если в машине нет карсита, и тогда одолжат его родителям.

Originally Posted by Basil77

детское сиденье is more informal and much widely used. I have two of them for both my kids. I tried to use rear-facing for my daughter seat (she is 1 y.o.) but she doesn't like it and get boring very fast. But when she looks forward she rather enjoys a trip. I had a couple of long trips with her with summer (more than 1000 km each) and she was ok during the whole way in her seat. My son is 9 y.o. so he almost don't need a child seat already. But by the Russian law a kid must be in a seat untill 12 y.o. or if his weight is less than 35 kg. My son's weight is 32kg so he is planning to get rid of the seat soon.

Some corrections:

детское сиденье is more informal and much widely used. I have two of them for both of my kids. I tried to use rear-facing for my daughter's seat (she is 1 y.o.) but she doesn't like it and gets bored very fast. But when she looks forward she rather enjoys a trip. I had a couple of long trips with her this summer (more than 1000 km each) and she was ok during the whole way in her seat. My son is 9 y.o. so he almost don't need a child seat already. ___ By ___ Russian law a kid must be in a seat until 12 y.o. or if his weight is less than 35 kg. My son's weight is 32kg so he is planning to get rid of the seat soon.

Scott

Thank you very much for corrections, Scott. All these mistakes I made are so silly! Shame on me. I have to re-read my posts more carefully.

Originally Posted by Basil77

Thank you very much for corrections, Scott. All these mistakes I made are so silly! Shame on me. I have to re-read my posts more carefully.

It's OK.

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

I wonder if laws in Ukraine are different or if we are just ignorant. None of my friends with kids had special car seats, and I hasten to assure you that all these kids survived to their preteen years just fine.
Undoubtedly, such car seats will be getting more and more popular, as the old mentality gets weaker and families income and awareness grow, but still sitting in the kids seat until you are 12 (twelve!) seems a bit extreme.

I grew up in the days when kids in the US only rode in a seat as long as the parent's felt like having one. I was about 1 or 2 when I switched to just an improperly worn seatbelt. Sometimes I rode in the bed of the truck, completely unrestrained. I survived! That is only because I was never in a car crash. I shudder to think if I had been.

Originally Posted by kozyablo

but for 12 years, people don't use a real seat = for this age this is just a pillow

PS = now in Moscow lenght of traffic jams are above 1 MEGAmeter
this is a hell especially for child in детских удерживающих устройствах...

As for discomfort, I can tell you that my kids have been very comfortable in their restraints for long drives. This summer we drove 14 hours from California to Utah. The little kids were nuts, but thank goodness they were strapped down and could only hit, kick, and make noise! My oldest child will be 12 in a month. I've been talking to her about getting out of the booster seat. She tells me that she does not want out because she has pillows to rest her head against when she is tired. Recently we had one car seat out of commission. (It got peed in and I had misplaced an integral part while washing.) I had my 8 year old ride in a vest restraint. After a 1.5 hour trip he complained that he never wanted to ride in the vest again. The vest itself was not the uncomfortable part- it was sitting on a plain old vehicle seat with nothing to lean his head against. Of course, I buy and sell car seats so that I can have the super duper fancy, shmancy, comfortable and colorful car seats for my kids and I keep them sparkly clean, so my kids have a different car seat experience than many other kids. (I work at car seat check events and see the nasty, filthy seats a majority of kids have to sit in.)