If you’re wondering how to entice your little one into his or her car seat, I have a groovy, Batman carseat, solution. Kids Embrace South Africa is importing character car seats that will have your kid in their car seat in next to no time. And promising the earth to have it.
To set the scene of how much my child was excited about this car seat we have to go all the way back to November 2015 when my car was stolen, together with the car seat. I was looking online at different options and I came across the Batman car seat. Nicky also saw it and was very enthusiastic about the idea.
I did a lot of research and I just couldn’t swing it. I almost went for a second hand one on bidorbuy but I chickened out, not trusting the source. In the end I got a boring grey one from a second hand baby shop. Not that great, but it did the job. We forgot about Batman and went on with our lives.
Fast forward a few months and SA Mom blogs receives an email from Lisa Butlion, managing director for TDI Brandz, an umbrella company for quite a few products: Brother Max (feeding and weaning products), BabyStyle (prams, strollers and car seats), Yoomi (self heating feeding bottles), BoBo Buddies (beautifully made backpacks soothers and rattles), and wait for it, Kids Embrace: Character Car Seats.
Sometimes I’m really grateful for the doors blogging has opened for me and this was one opportunity I was seriously ecstatic about. Nicky saw me do a fist punch and wanted to know what was up.
“You’re getting a Batman car seat!”
“Batman car seat!” His cup was full.
Since the car seat took about a week to get to our house, this was an opportunity for us as parents to milk the thing for all it was worth.
Every time Nicky did not want to do something, we threatened to cancel the Batman car seat. This mostly applied to bath time and putting on his clothes. My husband actually had a long pretend conversation on his phone with Lisa, explaining that she shouldn’t send the seat as he would not get in the bath.
Eventually the seat arrived and our little boy was put out of his misery. He was so excited as we opened the box and put it together on the couch. He wanted it in the car right that minute but had to settle for the next day.
He loved putting the cape around himself. When we got in the car the next day he declared he was “cold” even though it was a sunny day, just so that he could have the cape around himself. The juice holders are great, not just for juice, but also for putting in his sunglasses.
I can’t thank Lisa enough for this great gift. My advice to other parents who are also stuck in the car a lot with a kid who doesn’t necessary want to be there: you won’t regret it. They will love it.
(And don’t think we still don’t threaten to put the Batman carseat back in its box and send it back when he doesn’t behave).
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The following stock are now available: Batman, Paw Patrol Marshall, Dora & Turtles.
Aw that’s so cute.
so my little girl kaera used this exact carseat so i got the pink cinderella one then i got the princes tiana one so she loved it so she was forward facing in it so the cinderella one has a cape which kept her warm in the winter and on cold fall days so she loved so it was so great
I agree with a lot of the points you made in this article. I appreciate the work you have put into this and hope you continue writing on this subject.
Ja now it’s the Christmas presents we are threatening…
Had a good laugh at the bit where your husband made the pretend call to cancel the carseat… the things we do once we’re parents! 😀