u/NotMyClowns

What's been everyone's experience aging through car seats for your littles? My son with DS is only 18mo and is still in his infant Graco Click Connect rear facing seat, although he's starting to get a little big for it so we're considering getting an alternative. We have the Graco Extend2Fit for our 4.5yo daughter and that worked well so will probably get another of those. Are there any other models that you all have tried that work well for our kiddos as they age? In general what was your experience been in terms of continued harness/booster transitions as your kids get older? Did you find they required additional harness/booster support past when your typical kids needed it? This is something I haven't yet researched, and obviously it is incredibly dependent on the individual child and their abilities, but was still curious what experiences other families had with these transitions.

Edit: I should add, I definitely have "grass is greener" syndrome when I compare our US car-based culture with our European friends whose trams/public transit is phenomenal lol.

Wondering who has watched the Sally Phillips documentary, A World Without Down's Syndrome? It was one of the resources I watched several times when my partner and I were wrestling with the decision to keep our pregnancy or not two years ago. I just got an itch to watch it again given the recent influencer's public decision to terminate. My little man just turned 18 months old and I've been reflecting on all the resources we referenced when making the decision.

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I was surprised to see it only had a 6.6/10 rating - with a lot of critiques stating that it focused too much on high-functioning individuals, was more emotionally driven vs data-driven, etc. Curious what others in this community thought of the documentary? I honestly loved it. I'm an engineer and manage data constantly in my daily life - I also closely manage risk and assumptions when the data doesn't clearly show a path forward. What I loved from this movie was the higher level question of what kind of world we want to live in and should we decide who gets to live in it.