Kellyville Car Seat Installations

Kellyville Car Seat Installations

Who am I? I am Tamarin, a mum to 4 young children, a business owner and I also have a strong passion for child restraints.

My car seat fixation started many years ago when I was a nanny, even in my pre-children days I noticed daily how many young children were in incorrectly installed, misused and even expired car seats.

Things didn?t really start until I had my first child in 2008. As any new parent there are so many choices, how do you know you are making the right decision? I trusted the advice I was given by the shop assistant, handed over my money and away we went. I wanted the best of the best for my daughter. Having not installed a car seat for several years I sought a professional restraint fitter to fit the car seat.

Several months later I discovered that the car seat I had been using was not suitable for a newborn, not only that it was also installed incorrectly. I had unknowingly put my precious newborn at risk.

I found an online forum filled with people who were just as passionate (if not more so) than I was. I decided that one day I wanted to become a restraint fitter.

I started helping friends install their car seats and offering advice to people I met in the car seat aisles of my local baby shop which I used to frequent often. It became a joke amoungst family and friends that I was the car seat police, if something wasn?t right they sure knew about it seconds later.

A recent study found that over 80% of child restraints are either installed incorrectly or greatly misused. I am here to try and turn this statistic around. ...read more