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Live in Michigan, Get YOur Car Seats Checked on Saturday!

September 24, 2010 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment

Safe Kids USA will check thousands of child safety seats nationwide this week and will conclude National Child Passenger Safety Week (Sept. 19-25) with a signature event on “Seat Check Saturday” for families and their children at the General Motors Technical Center.

Seat Check Saturday is a national activity of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, held at the end of National Child Passenger Safety Week on Sept. 25.  Safe Kids’ coalitions around the country are holding more than 400 inspection events during the week, including 170 events on Seat Check Saturday.? 
“Safe Kids USA is very pleased to host our capstone event for Child Passenger Safety Week at the engineering epicenter of General Motors,” said Torine Creppy, Director of Safe Kids USA Buckle Up programs.  “Since the program began in 1997, our partnership with General Motors and the General Motors Foundation has resulted in 1.3 million car seats checked at about 65,000 car seat checkup events around the country.”
Safe Kids Buckle Up, the child passenger safety program of Safe Kids USA in partnership with the General Motors Foundation, hosts child safety seat checkups and other vehicle safety events throughout the year.  Through the generosity of the General Motors Foundation, Safe Kids has reached more than 21 million people and donated more than 457,000 car seats to families in need.
The Warren, Mich. event will be held at the GM Technical Centers Vehicle Engineering Center, 30001 Van Dyke road (enter at Gate 11) from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Certified child passenger safety technicians from Safe Kids Macomb County, will inspect and help assure child safety seats are properly installed for families from local Head Start Centers, Selfridge Air National Guard, the Michigan WIC (Women, Infant and Children) program and the general public.
Parents and caregivers can find additional Safe Kids Buckle Up seat check events by visiting the Safe Kids web-site at http://www.safekids.org/.
“Safe Kids USA’s Safe Kids Buckle Up program is one of the most significant ongoing activities supported by the GM Foundation,” said John Montford, Foundation Chairman. “Families have always been a key target for this program, and we are pleased that Head Start centers in the area are able to take advantage of the expert service provided by the technicians who are conducting this event”.
Research from NHTSA shows that roughly 3 out of 4 child safety seats are not used properly and as children age they are less likely to be in the appropriate child safety seat for their age and weight. 
Parents and caregivers should follow a few basic guidelines to determine which restraint system is best suited to protect their children in a vehicle:

  • For the best possible protection, keep infants in a back seat, in rear-facing child safety seats, as long as possible—up to the height or weight limit of the particular seat. Never turn a child forward-facing before age 1 and at least 20 pounds, although keeping kids rear-facing until at least age 2 is safer and preferred if the seat allows.
  • When children outgrow their rear-facing seats, they should ride in forward-facing child safety seats, in a back seat, until they reach the upper weight or height limit of the particular harnessed seat.  Many newer seats exceed the old 40 pound weight limit.
  • Once children outgrow their forward-facing seats, they should ride in booster seats, in the back seat, until the vehicle seat belts fit properly. 
  • Seat belts fit properly when the lap belt lays across the upper thighs and the shoulder belt rests on the shoulder or collar bone (usually when the child is between 8 and 12 years old, approximately 4’9” tall and 80 to 100 pounds).


About Safe Kids USA
 Safe Kids USA is a member of Safe Kids Worldwide, a global network of organizations with the mission of preventing unintentional childhood injury, the leading cause of death and disability to children ages 1 to 14. More than 600 coalitions in the United States and nineteen member countries worldwide bring together health and safety experts, educators, corporations, foundations, governments and volunteers to educate and protect families.

About General Motors Foundation
Since its inception in 1976, the GM Foundation has donated hundreds of millions to deserving American charities and to disaster relief efforts worldwide. The GM Foundation focuses on Education, Health and Human Services, Environment and Energy and Community Development initiatives, mainly in the communities where GM operates. For more information, visit www.gm.com/corporate/responsibility/community.

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Live in Michigan, Get YOur Car Seats Checked on Saturday!

September 24, 2010 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment

Safe Kids USA will check thousands of child safety seats nationwide this week and will conclude National Child Passenger Safety Week (Sept. 19-25) with a signature event on “Seat Check Saturday” for families and their children at the General Motors Technical Center.

Seat Check Saturday is a national activity of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, held at the end of National Child Passenger Safety Week on Sept. 25.  Safe Kids’ coalitions around the country are holding more than 400 inspection events during the week, including 170 events on Seat Check Saturday.? 
“Safe Kids USA is very pleased to host our capstone event for Child Passenger Safety Week at the engineering epicenter of General Motors,” said Torine Creppy, Director of Safe Kids USA Buckle Up programs.  “Since the program began in 1997, our partnership with General Motors and the General Motors Foundation has resulted in 1.3 million car seats checked at about 65,000 car seat checkup events around the country.”
Safe Kids Buckle Up, the child passenger safety program of Safe Kids USA in partnership with the General Motors Foundation, hosts child safety seat checkups and other vehicle safety events throughout the year.  Through the generosity of the General Motors Foundation, Safe Kids has reached more than 21 million people and donated more than 457,000 car seats to families in need.
The Warren, Mich. event will be held at the GM Technical Centers Vehicle Engineering Center, 30001 Van Dyke road (enter at Gate 11) from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Certified child passenger safety technicians from Safe Kids Macomb County, will inspect and help assure child safety seats are properly installed for families from local Head Start Centers, Selfridge Air National Guard, the Michigan WIC (Women, Infant and Children) program and the general public.
Parents and caregivers can find additional Safe Kids Buckle Up seat check events by visiting the Safe Kids web-site at http://www.safekids.org/.
“Safe Kids USA’s Safe Kids Buckle Up program is one of the most significant ongoing activities supported by the GM Foundation,” said John Montford, Foundation Chairman. “Families have always been a key target for this program, and we are pleased that Head Start centers in the area are able to take advantage of the expert service provided by the technicians who are conducting this event”.
Research from NHTSA shows that roughly 3 out of 4 child safety seats are not used properly and as children age they are less likely to be in the appropriate child safety seat for their age and weight. 
Parents and caregivers should follow a few basic guidelines to determine which restraint system is best suited to protect their children in a vehicle:

  • For the best possible protection, keep infants in a back seat, in rear-facing child safety seats, as long as possible—up to the height or weight limit of the particular seat. Never turn a child forward-facing before age 1 and at least 20 pounds, although keeping kids rear-facing until at least age 2 is safer and preferred if the seat allows.
  • When children outgrow their rear-facing seats, they should ride in forward-facing child safety seats, in a back seat, until they reach the upper weight or height limit of the particular harnessed seat.  Many newer seats exceed the old 40 pound weight limit.
  • Once children outgrow their forward-facing seats, they should ride in booster seats, in the back seat, until the vehicle seat belts fit properly. 
  • Seat belts fit properly when the lap belt lays across the upper thighs and the shoulder belt rests on the shoulder or collar bone (usually when the child is between 8 and 12 years old, approximately 4’9” tall and 80 to 100 pounds).


About Safe Kids USA
 Safe Kids USA is a member of Safe Kids Worldwide, a global network of organizations with the mission of preventing unintentional childhood injury, the leading cause of death and disability to children ages 1 to 14. More than 600 coalitions in the United States and nineteen member countries worldwide bring together health and safety experts, educators, corporations, foundations, governments and volunteers to educate and protect families.

About General Motors Foundation
Since its inception in 1976, the GM Foundation has donated hundreds of millions to deserving American charities and to disaster relief efforts worldwide. The GM Foundation focuses on Education, Health and Human Services, Environment and Energy and Community Development initiatives, mainly in the communities where GM operates. For more information, visit www.gm.com/corporate/responsibility/community.

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Manly Monday #9 – What’s in a Name

July 13, 2008 by dadofdivas 7 Comments


The idea behind Manly Monday is that you talk about what it means to be a man, or a dad, or portrays something manly (in however you define this). This does not mean that you need to be a man to write a post so ladies out there…I encourage you to try this out as well…
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I have been thinking a lot lately about the reasons that people choose the names for their children. For us, our girls’ first names were ones that we found in books and ended up choosing from a long list of contenders. We read many baby books for both pregnancies and found that we had a much easier time agreeing on girls names than on potential boy names. We also found many other girl names than boy names that made it on our list (our boy list was very small to say the least).

The middle names that we chose were family names, and for Diva-J there was not much of a though on it as J-Mom really wanted her middle name to be that of her fraternal grandmother. For Diva-PJ, I wanted her middle name to be that of my maternal grandmother who is my last living grandparent.

Both of the names that we chose came to truly fit our kids and we cannot think of our girls having any other names. I think that most (or probably all) parents would also say this…it’s not just us.

With the birth of famous babies like the Jolie Twins, and others, with unique names, I really question how and why people choose the names that they choose for their children, or why they got named what they did.

For me, whether I was a boy or a girl my parents had chosen more popular names, and growing up I found out that I would have been a Stephanie if I had been born female (I can’t see myself as a Stephanie…so I am glad that I was born a man).

So now I turn to all of you. What is in your name? Why did you name your children the names that you did?

Thanks for reading and have a great Manly Monday!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Children Names, Diva-J, Diva-PJ, J-Mom, Manly Monday, Names, naming

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