by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes

When you get right down to it, a booster seat is pretty much a glorified phone book. Its job is to boost -- thus the name -- your child up to right height to use your car's seatbelts safely and keep the seatbelt positioned properly. Car seat companies add in all sorts of extras -- padded headwings, LATCH attachments that keep the booster seat safely buckled in even when a child's not in it, cup holders, side impact protection -- but still, for the most part, glorified phone book.
That's why though the Mifold car seat, so tiny and light that it hefts like a kid's play tablet computer or an eyeshadow palette, is actually a functioning booster seat.

C'mon, really" Yep. It's true. When we got a (free; this post is not sponsored in any other way, however) sample at BabyCenter it was so outrageously small that we had to try it out. A San Francisco 6-year-old we know was the (not all that willing) subject, because he fit in the Mifold's age/weight range (4 to 12 years old, 40 to 120 pounds). His mom and I were both amazed (but made a little bit nervous by) how petite and light the seat was, fitting in its own (included) pouch that we noted would easily go into a stroller basket, diaper bag, glove compartment, etc. etc.

It took us a while to figure out what these slidey things were that came out from each side of the seat. They're to make the seat into the right width for your child.

We also peeped the technical stuff on the...