Safety is a huge priority in my home with my three young children. I recently became aware of a simple safety precaution called a car seat child safety ID card. The idea behind it is simple. It is an identification card placed on the side or back of your child’s car or booster seats in your vehicle. The purpose is for if you were in a vehicular accident, and as a result were killed or rendered unconscious, this card could help first responders and hospital staff immensely. This is critical for very young or special needs children who cannot effectively communicate their identity, age, special medical needs, blood type, and emergency contacts.
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Sometimes your child’s pediatrician will carry these car seat child safety ID cards to fill out and affix to your car seats, but our pediatrician had not heard of such a program. I decided to make one for myself, and I am sharing my printable card with you in a couple colored versions.
You can print these car seat ID cards onto printer labels and attach to your car seat. If you do not have labels, print out the card onto regular or heavy copy paper and fill out the information. Then cut out the card and tape it to the side or back of your child’s car seat. You could even laminate the car seat ID cards, and then attach to the car seat with tape or by punching a hole through the card and using a zip tie.
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My cards are free and downloadable to be printed and used as many times as you need. The image can be downloaded by clicking the image link above, right clicking on the image, and the saving the image locally to your computer and printing. You can print either the image or the PDF, but make sure you check “actual size” and not “fit to page” when your print dialog window opens. Please take the time to take this easy safety precaution if you are unavailable for your child. Please share this information with anyone who is a parent, with those who take care of children, and with your local pediatrician’s office.
A simple little card could save your child’s life or at least allow for first responders and hospital staff alert family members who can quickly arrive during those first scary moments without you.
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