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It depends where you are. The bubble bum and ride safer vests people mentioned already are both banned in Canada, for example. Kindergarten for us was ages 3-5, so still used a harnessed seat. At that point we moved to a high back booster. We used a Diono Cambria for travel - it is crazy light. We also used a Graco turbo booster backless seat, but this is more a seatbelt positioner rather than a booster.
We have a main car and a secondary car we rarely use. We got a Graco backless booster when our daughter was about 4.5 just for the second car. In our primary car; we use the Graco slim fit slim fit in booster mode. We didn’t want to spend that much for our secondary car that was only used once every few weeks If it was a car seat that was used consistently, we would have got another slim fit.
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