Hello, I'm Dr. Flaura Koplin Winston. I'm a general pediatrician, a biomechanical engineer, and I co-direct The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. On March 21, 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics released new guidelines on child passenger safety, based on up-to-date information. In another Medscape video, I reviewed these recommendations. In this video, I'm going to give you practical information on how to relay this information to families and answer their questions. I'm going to focus on 2 controversial recommendations that caused a lot of buzz. The first one is to keep kids rear-facing until at least age 2 years. The other is to keep kids in booster seats longer, past age 8 years, until they reach 4 foot 9 inches, which might be between the ages of 8 and 12 years."
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