Orbit Infant Travel System Safety Risk
August 26, 2009 by Peggy Rowland
Filed under Home & Living
The Orbit Infant System is a high-end combo that features a stroller, carrier and car seat for around $900. It’s popular with A-list celebrities, but Consumer Reports thinks you’re better off with a less expensive version, such as the Graco Stylus or Eddie Bauer Adventurer. Both of those models passed crash simulation tests, unlike the Orbit.
Consumer Reports rated the Orbit Infant System as “Don’t Buy: Safety Risk”. While the stroller is safe, the car seat detached from its base in simulated 30-mph frontal crash tests. The tests were commissioned at an outside laboratory and conducted using guidelines for speed and …read more
Are You Waiting for a Friend?
“Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.”
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I think that the loneliest time in a woman’s life is when her children are little and demand all of her attention. It leaves little time to go out and see “grown up” people. But that needn’t be the case…
Just yesterday I saw the young mom who lives next door, get her children ready, and wander down the sidewalk. And it seems to work. Every time I look out my office window, she’s chatting with someone. She probably knows more people on the street than I do!
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