Kaboost's inventor, Amir Levin, told me something we love to hear at ZRecs. To paraphrase: "I don't think that we've ever had a review for the Kaboost that was so, ummm, thorough." If you missed it, you can read our assessment of the ins and outs of this new product here.
The company has decided to promote a 10% Z Recommends discount on its seat booster, which is currently available in three colors. You can find the coupon code in the Z Direct Coupon Codes section of our blog's lefthand sidebar. Just click on the offer to go to the Kaboost website's order form.
The coupon code is good through the end of September, and is only valid on orders placed directly with the company. As with all Z Direct Coupon Codes, you're welcome to repost it and pass it on wherever you like - just make sure to let people know who is negotiating these deals!
Levin has also agreed to give away a Kaboost on Z Recommends, shipped directly from the company in the winner's choice of color. To enter, comment on this post and tell us about the worst high chair or booster seat you have ever encountered. Whether it's one you once owned or still use or one you had to use or witness in use while away from home, share your worst high chair/booster story for a chance to win. We'll accept entries until Wednesday at 11:59 p.m., select a winner at random from eligible entries, and call out for the winner to send us their full name and mailing info sometime Friday.
Monday, September 03, 2007
Giveaway and Coupon Code: Kaboost Seat Booster
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We thought we'd save money and got a thrift store high chair - one from the 70s. When we put the tray on the seat after our daughter was inside, it pinched our daughters' skin so badly that she screamed everytime she saw it. We couldn't even use a high chair after that.
When my son was first born my MIL had a highchair that I swear was from when her kids were little. I never felt that the kids were very safe when they were in it.
The worst high chairs are the sticky ones at restaurants-how often do they wipe those down?! They are disgusting, especially when you can tell what the kid before ate while sitting in it!
Man, I despise those booser seats that you are supposed to put on chairs at restaurants. Icky, like betyhany said, but also insecure. And very escapable! The last time I used one of those, my son ended up putting it under the table because he could get out and I was sick with fear that he was going to fall right off the chair anyway.
I once went to a diner that had a highchair that was probably from the 80's. It didn't have a lap strap, and the vinyl was ripped.
and it came with its own french fry! EWW!
at a restaurant with my parents once, we came across the very old style of restaurant high-chairs, metal and leather fold-up combo thing...i was sure the whole time that it was going to collapse under my son! (not to mention the non-highchair/booster friends when you forgot to bring anything along...and then the kid sits in a regular chair and knocks himself over backwards...not that this happened today or anything!)
At my mother-in-law's house. My husband and all his siblings used it (his oldest sibling is 38!). You probably have an idea how rickety it must be. I get scared every time I put my daughters in it.
We are still laughing about this. the kind of seat that attached to the table. the diameter of the table at the restaurant was so that our sweet alison could reach all the way to the other side. as we tried to move all that was on the table so she wouldn't grab it, the waiter sat a glass container with a drink for our little one(which we had NOT ordered), we fought ourselves trying to grab it before she did. the chair made it so NOTHING on the table was safe. the tray was so small that the floor was COVERED in RICE. my husband gathered it with his feet in a pile as we ate. i finally took her out and rescued the night. not a good choice of seat!! but a great laugh!!
Our son is 14 months, so we decided to try out a booster seat this weekend. It was one of the standard brown, hard, plastic booster seats. It was much cleaner than the icky, wooden high chairs, but utterly useless. He wanted to stand on it, so it kept sliding around. I ended up holding him in my lap until we could high-tail it out of there.
MamaChristy is totally right. The boosters are such a balancing act. It's worst when the booster is on a bench or in a booth and you can't move the table closer. My son kept slipping down under the table when he reached for his food!
I agree with all of the brown booster comments. Those seats are useless.
I am one of the directors of our church nursery and have fielded many offers of donations of items people felt the nursery needed. One item was a high chair. This was a huge plastic/vinyl thing that took up more space than it needed to. It also came with several unidentifiable brown and orange stains, left over food under the vinyl seat cushion and several rips in the cushion. I also seem to remember that one of the straps was broken. I attempted to clean it up. I never put it in the nursery but had it available in the kitchen for about a month. Then I moved it to a back room and then eventually the garbage.
I then bought several restaurant style highchairs that I keep extremely clean. To ward off other offers of high chairs.
I am now wary of any offers and tend to direct them to the community center that takes donations for expectant mothers. I will let them decide if it is something they will want.
I don't understand the ones that hook on to the table. They don't seem that safe to me.
When my first child was able to use a high chair my Mother In Law brought out of her cluttered garage, this metal highchair that looked like a death trap. She kept it because it was my husbands high chair from when he was a baby and thought that my kids could use it. I guess it didn't ever kill/hurt him but I can't imagine putting my child in it. It didn't have straps and looked like it would fold up automatically if my child moved the wrong way.
Wow, how times have changed.
Okay...the worst high chairs ever are those wooden ones that they have at restaurants lots of times. They are have no tray, and no back, and they CANNOT be the least bit comfortable. When your child is younger they can't sit in them very well and when they're older, they climb out!! Yep...I don't like those ones at all. :)
Good thing my mom doesn't read this... she bought a wooden high chair from a garage sale while I was pregnant, and has proudly displayed it in her kitchen since then, awaiting my baby's presence in it. Sorry, mom, but that splintery, hand-me-down stranger's chair ain't going on my precious baby's bottom!
we have one of those high chairs that attaches to a regular chair. The problem is that the cover is fabric so it can't be wiped clean, it needs to be laundered. I either need a dozen covers or a new high chair. I also hate high chairs with huge trays that don't fit in out tiny double corner sink.
We have a HORRIBLE one. It was the one we bought to bring along with us to the inlaws. First, it's got a bajillion straps to go under/around chair. But if your chair doesn't have slats - forget it. You are screwed because the straps are too short.
THEN, if you get it anywhere close to being snug, you'll realize the base is bigger than any normal chair you've ever sat in. Maybe that chair from the saturday night skit (and that's the truth!) where it's a giant chair. Okay, THAT may work. But then again, the straps would never fit on that monster.
Okay, so lets say you bent the laws of physics and were able to get the straps snug AND the chair's seat was bigger than the base of this booster/highchair combo. Great! Now try to push it up to a table. NO CAN DO. The thing that attaches the tray is too high to fit underneath a table, on a regular chair. Sweet. Want to use it alone, without a table? Sure. But the tray is maybe 3"x3". Holds approximately 6 pieces of mac and cheese.
If anyone wants this little piece of heaven, visit your local babies r us. I can send you the model number!
The worst high chairs I've ever encountered are the ones as McDonald's. They are usually filthy and you MIGHT find a tray for it and if you do, you are sure to find it with ketchup or some sort of food on it. The Seat itself is usually disgusting and the belt (if one) usually is broken. I try to just set my little guy on my lap when we are there because those highchairs are so nasty.
We were shopping for strollers over the weekend, and now every highchair seems inadequate, compared to the amazing one that I stumbled upon. This thing has NO grooves at all. No weird places where food can get stuck. And it actually has a pneutmatic lift-- it adjusts to any height (within reason), so that you can use it at your dining table or on its own w/a tray.
My bad highchair is story is from a B&B in Maine. The owner was so well-meaning, that I had to put my daughter in it for breakfast, even though it was an old, dusty, wooden chair that was so big that I had to stuff pillows behind my daughter, and also put one hand on her legs so that she wouldn't slide right out the bottom. And the tray didn't lock down, so that my daughter was constantly in danger of pinching her fingers in it.
My parents have an old highchair from the 1950s that nearly every person in my family somehow survived using over the course of fifty plus years. While this highchair is charming, it is in no way safe for a squirming, food-tossing, washcloth-evading baby. The poor relic is all wood, splinters at the ready to assail my baby girl's sweet flesh, its dilapidated tray that no longer stays attached to the chair appears to be the only "safety measure", and all joints where wood meets wood reveal cracked glue that is unable to do its job--for the past 30 years. Uh, scary.
With our first child, we purchased a high chair (I don't remember the brand), but the seat would adjust to different positions. So you could have it in a reclining position for a baby with a bottle, then go through a couple of other positions until fully upright for eating. It seemed like a great thing...except we would have it in the upright position and it would suddenly shift back into the reclining position much to Jack's dismay! Fortunately he never choked and after this happened a couple of times, we got rid of it.
We got our first booster seat for free from a friend. After we scraped off all the caked on food, it seemed usuable. However, we discovered if our 2 yr old daughter was too wiggly in her seat, the seat would drop out of it. She was never, hurt, she usually pretty scared. She would end up crying and telling the seat "no break!"
We were at a restaurant (the name has been omitted to protect the not-so-innocent), and we put Peanut in the high chair... In the first place, the straps wouldn't adjust, so her poor little belly was squished in a way-too-tiny strap, the whole thing was scarily wobbly, and there were nasty little bits of brown gunk stuck all over it.
She didn't stay in that high chair too long! We didn't have the heart to make her sit in it!
When I take my 14 month old to visit my mom, we use the highchair she used for my brothers and me. There's no question to it's safety or cleanliness, but it's design is not so great. The vinyl is slick, so we end up putting a half roll of non-skid carpet gripper all along the seat. The only thing that keeps the baby from worming their way down out of the seat is a short strap between the legs that connects the tray and the chair. My son makes a total mess out of the tray area when he eats. When you pull the tray off, there is no easy way to set it aside, so it ends up hanging down and dropping all the mess to the floor while you concentrate on taking the squirming child out of it.
Booster seats are the worst. My child never fits right into them and the ones at restaurants are so yucky!
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We bought a white booster at a yard sale. Great price. It had a rought texture (to provide a non-slip surface, I suppose). It was HORRIBLE to clean. I get chills thinking about it still. It NEVER looked clean ---AHHHH!
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