@zazu soo true lol

Once our kids are parents there are gonna be things they look back on and say 'omg how unsafe ' which is the norm now. So it's happens

My dad had an old bronco. He took the actual seat out of the back and set up padding with blankets & pillows and my sister and I would just chill back there. We went from Colorado to Ohio like that once ?

And a lot of babies has severe injuries and died too.... she forgot to mention that

I grew up not wearing a seatbelt or ever being in a carseat. Time does change though.

Yup, my mom and dad put me on the dashboard or the floor of the front seat with no car seat. They are much older.

My parents had a cargo van and we would do the same thing. Thank God I'm still here.

Different world back then. Cars didn't get above 30mph lol, didn't cause the wrecks they cause now. There was far less distraction from the road, no phones going off, less traffic on the roads in general. Car seats weren't as needed then, to compare times is pointless. My grand mother survived chewing dye cast cars covered in lead paint and my grandfather survived working in a chemical plant with very little health and safety rules in place, would we do that now because they survived? No, because we know better, do better.

My parents used to lay the seats down in our mini van so that my siblings and I could sleep and watch movies while laying down with sleeping bags and pillows when we were young. We'd make trips from NY to OH or GA to OH, so that's how they kept us occupied. ? Needless to say, my parents think I'm crazy because of my car seat rules.