Can You Do This With Your Kid's Car Seat? Should You?

Car seat safety continues to be a hot-button issue throughout parenting circles. When can they face forward? How old is too old for a booster? How high should that chest clip really be? Well a mom from Greene, Maine named Rachel McNamara recently went viral for her helpful car seat safety tips — that have been pretty eye-opening, to say the least. The reason? In two side-by-side photos, McNamara can be seen holding her baby’s car seat overhead as well as upside down — with her baby still in it. And it’s all to raise a pretty important question for parents: Can your baby’s car seat contain him or her if your car flips or rolls over in an accident? “I’d like to clarify that I’m not advocating that parents should be flipping their kids upside down before every car ride,” she notes. “Just that they should feel confident that their child would be safe IF the car seat was flipped over in an accident. I think this is a great visual and shows just how important proper car seat use is.” She makes some great points about car seat safety, but she's also drawn a lot of flack for using her own child for her demonstration! Take a look at the full story here: Babble.