How did this happen yesterday and yet I only found out today? I remember when I was right on top of celebrity news and gossip. Oh wait. That was before I had kids. Now I guess I’m too busy taking CARE of my kids to keep up with the It List.

Anyway. Apparently, Britney is clueless again. I don’t hold Sean’s fractured skull against her; he fell from a faulty high chair while under the nanny’s supervision. But she was still the one idiotic enough to drive with him on her lap a couple of months ago. And now she’s finally got his strapped into his car seat, BUT! Parents? Where did she go wrong?

Let’s see. Strapped in, good. Oh but wait! Isn’t he only 8 months old? Too bad the AAP states that it’s unsafe to drive with a baby facing forward until he/she is both 20 pounds AND one year old. He’s four months short. Not to mention, I don’t think it’s the safest idea to drive in a convertible with the top down when you have a baby. Facing forward like that, at his age, his neck could snap like a rubber band if she hits something. And with no real protection on the top of the car, he’d be in danger of being crushed if the car flipped.

Another point is the restraint. I’ve seen Hayley manage to slump down a lot when she falls asleep in the car, and even Breanna’s head has flopped over a bit when she’s sleeping in her car seat. In this picture though, his shoulder is really out there. If she has the harness on him, it’s got to be awfully loose for him to be that far forward. If it’s that loose, he’d probably launch straight out of there in an accident; the straps should be tight enough that you can only slip a finger in between the strap and your baby, and once everything is buckled, you’re supposed to bring the clip up to armpit level to keep the harness snug against the body. There’s just no way she did that if he’s hanging forward like that.

Also, I feel I should point out one other detail for my mom’s sake. I’m really lucky, some women have a baby and their mother criticizes every.last.detail of their parenting choices. My mother isn’t like that at all, she respects the difference in choices I have made versus those she may have made. However, the one thing she told me she would never let slip by without saying something is if I ever went out with a baby in the hot sun without a hat because my grandmother’s sister died as a baby from sun stroke. Dude, Britney’s tooling around L.A. in the hot California sun in a convertible – where the hell is his hat?

Poor Britney. She makes it really hard for people to get her. Where is her family? Is there no one around her who has a clue and who can say, “Hey Brit! He’s not ready to face forward! Put a hat on him! And use the minivan for god’s sake.”

And she’s pregnant again, oy.