by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes

It's confusing -- even terrifying -- to install your child's car seat, so who could blame you for wanting help" Particularly since experts estimate that anywhere from 75 to 90 percent of seats are installed or used incorrectly.
But please: Don't just stop by your local firehouse to ask for help. Though parent word-of-mouth has it that there are experts standing by waiting to help with car seat installation and questions, in most cities that's just not the case. You'll just waste the firefighter's time (and your own).

Christine Williams, a firefighter at San Francisco Fire Department Station 21, says that hapless parents continually ring her station's doorbell to ask for car seat help, and it stresses her out to have to say no, "but there's no one there trained to do what they need done." She says if BabyCenter could get parents to stop showing up, we'd be "a hero to all firefighters everywhere." But hang on, I hear some of you saying, particularly if you happen to live in a state that's particularly proactive in matters of child passenger safety: I went down to my local fire house and got help, no problem!
That's because some states, and some cities, have used federal grant money to set up car seat safety programs centered on fire houses. Atlanta, Georgia, for instance, has a particularly robust program, "best in the nation," boasts William Huttchinson, Program Director of the Child Safety ...