Eurymachus, the suitor, attempted to appease Odysseus, but did not succeed and was the next to die after Antinous.

Medon, the sacrificing priest also begged for mercy, but was decapitated on his kness while he begged for his life.

says Ness

1 syllable

bess, besse, bless, bress, bresse, ches, chess, cress, crests, dress, es, ess, esse, fess, fests, gess, gless, gress, guess, guests', guests, hess, hesse, jess, kess, kless, kness, kress, kresse, les, less, mess, nes, ness, pesce, pless, press, press', presse, ques, ress, s, s., stress, tess, tress, vess, wes, yes

2 syllables

address, aggress, assess, attests, bequests, caress, compress, confess, contests, depress, digests, digress, distress, divests, egress, ellesse, etess, excess, express, express', finesse, fluoresce, forbess, fs, impress, infests, invests, l'express, largesse, ls, lutece, lyness, molests, noblesse, obsess, oppress, possess, profess, progress, protests, recess, redress, regress, repress, requests, retests, siese, simplesse, success, suggests, suppress, transgress, ts, undress, unless, us, vs

3 syllables

abs, acquiesce, ccs, coalesce, convalesce, cps, cus, dispossess, dss, ers, ins, las, lcs, nonetheless, oas, pos, reassess, reinvests, repossess, uss, uys

4 syllables

abts, adss, cmos, hces, kjos, nevertheless, stds, tcas, ws

says, address, bless,

1 syllable

bess, besse, bless, bress, bresse, ches, chess, cress, crests, dress, es, ess, esse, fess, fests, gess, gless, gress, guess, guests', guests, hess, hesse, jess, kess, kless, kness, kress, kresse, les, less, mess, nes, ness, pesce, pless, press, press', presse, ques, ress, s, s., stress, tess, tress, vess, wes, yes

2 syllables

address, aggress, assess, attests, bequests, caress, compress, confess, contests, depress, digests, digress, distress, divests, egress, ellesse, etess, excess, express, express', finesse, fluoresce, forbess, fs, impress, infests, invests, l'express, largesse, ls, lutece, lyness, molests, noblesse, obsess, oppress, possess, profess, progress, protests, recess, redress, regress, repress, requests, retests, siese, simplesse, success, suggests, suppress, transgress, ts, undress, unless, us, vs

3 syllables

abs, acquiesce, ccs, coalesce, convalesce, cps, cus, dispossess, dss, ers, ins, las, lcs, nonetheless, oas, pos, reassess, reinvests, repossess, uss, uys

4 syllables

abts, adss, cmos, hces, kjos, nevertheless, stds, tcas, ws
Dress..Chess...Mess..less..us...
1.chess

2.dress

3.mess

4.less

5.guess
Pest, crest, test, mess.
less

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1 syllable:

abts, adss, bess, besse, bless, bress, bresse, ches, chess, cress, crests, cus, dress, ers, es, ess, esse, fess, fests, gess, gless, gress, guess, guests, guests', hess, hesse, ins, jess, kess, kless, kness, kress, kresse, las, les, less, mess, nes, ness, pesce, pless, pos, press, press', presse, ques, ress, s, s., stress, tess, tress, us, vess, wes, wess, yes

2 syllables:

address, aggress, attests, bench press, bequests, caress, cheese press, cmos, compress, confess, contests, depress, digests, digress, distress, divests, drop press, egress, ellesse, etess, excess, express, express', finesse, fluoresce, forbess, full dress, impress, ines, infests, invests, kjos, l'express, land cress, largesse, ls, lutece, lyness, marsh cress, molests, noblesse, obsess, oppress, possess, profess, progress, protests, punch press, recess, redress, regress, repress, requests, retests, rock cress, siese, simplesse, spring cress, stone cress, success, suggests, suppress, transgress, ts, u. s., undress, unless, uys, vs, word stress

3 syllables:

abs, acquiesce, battle dress, belle isle cress, bitter cress, bouncing bess, c. b. s., ccs, coalesce, cocktail dress, convalesce, dinner dress, dispossess, diving dress, downy chess, dss, e. d. s., evening dress, fancy dress, g. p. s., garden cress, garlic press, h. h. s., i. n. s., i. r. s., lcs, meadow cress, more or less, morning dress, nonetheless, o. a. s., oas, p. b. s., printing press, public press, purple cress, reassess, reinvests, repossess, rocket cress, sentence stress, standing press, stds, t. b. s., tower cress, u. s. s., uss, wedding dress, winter cress, with success

4 syllables:

civilian dress, durable press, hces, hydraulic press, incline bench press, Indian cress, Japanese chess, nevertheless, officer's mess, permanent press, pony express, rotary press, tcas, ws

5 syllables:

American cress, common garden cress, damsel in distress, early winter cress, freedom of the press, garden pepper cress, military press

Israel is a Parliamentary Democracy. Legislative branch:unicameral Knesset (120 seats; political parties are elected by popular vote and assigned seats for members on a proportional basis; members serve four-year terms)

elections: last held on 10 February 2009 (next scheduled election to be held in 2013)

Congress, depress, dress, stress, mess, press, caress,
abts, adss, bess, besse, bless, bress, bresse, ches, chess, cress,cus, dress, ers, es, ess, esse, fess, fesse, fs, gess, gless, gress,guess, hess, hesse, ins, jess, kess, kless, kness, kress, kresse, las,les, less, mess, nes, ness, pesce, pless, pos, press, press', presse,ques, ress, s, 's, s., stress, tess, tress, us, vess, wes, wess, yes, address, aggress, assess, attests, bench press, caress,cheese press, cmos, compress, confess, contests, depress,digests, digress, distress, drop press, egress, ellesse, etess,excess, express, express', finesse, fluoresce, forbess, full dress,impress, ines, land cress, largesse, l'express, ls, lutece, lyness,marsh cress, noblesse, obsess, oppress, possess, profess,protests, punch press, recess, redress, regress, repress,requests, rock cress, siese, simplesse, spring cress, stone cress,success, suppress, transgress, ts, undress, unless, u. s., uys, vs,word stress,

abs, acquiesce, battle dress, belle isle cress, bittercress, bouncing bess, c. b. s., ccs, coalesce, cocktail dress, convalesce,dinner dress, dispossess, diving dress, downy chess, dss, e. d. s.,evening dress, fancy dress, garden cress, garlic press, g. p. s.,h. h. s., i. n. s., i. r. s., lcs, meadow cress, more or less,morning dress, nonetheless, oas, o. a. s., p. b. s., printing press,public press, purple cress, reassess, reinvests, repossess,rocket cress, sentence stress, standing press, stds, t. b. s.,tower cress, uss, u. s. s., wedding dress, winter cress, with success

civilian dress, durable press, hces, hydraulic press,incline bench press, indian cress, japanese chess, nevertheless,officer's mess, permanent press, pony express, rotary press,tcas, ws american cress, common garden cress, damsel in distress,early winter cress, freedom of the press, garden pepper cress,military press

The question was changed to "What rhymes with the US?" because we already have a question that asks "What rhymes with us?" meaning the word "us", the pronoun for a group of people.

1 syllable:

abts, adss, bess, besse, bless, bress, bresse, brus, bruss, bus, buss, busse, ches, chess, cress, crests, cus, cuss, dress, dusts, ers, es, ess, esse, fess, fests, fuhs, fuss, gess, gless, gress, gruss, guess, guests, guests', gus, guss, hess, hesse, huss, ins, jess, kess, kless, klus, kness, kress, kresse, krus, kus, kuss, las, les, less, mess, muhs, nes, ness, nuss, pesce, pless, plus, pos, press, press', presse, prus, pruss, pus, puss, ques, ress, rus, russ, russe, rusts, s, s., shas, sluss, stress, struss, sus, suss, tess, thrusts, thus, tress, trus, truss, vess, wass, wes, wess, wuss, xus, yes

2 syllables:

address, adjusts, aggress, assess, attests, bench press, bequests, careplus, caress, cheese press, cmos, compress, confess, contests, depress, digests, digress, discuss, disgusts, distress, distrusts, divests, drop press, egress, ellesse, etess, excess, express, express', finesse, fluoresce, forbess, full dress, impress, ines, infests, invests, kjos, l'express, land cress, largesse, ls, lutece, lyness, marsh cress, molests, noblesse, nonpluss, obsess, oppress, possess, profess, progress, protests, punch press, recess, redress, regress, repress, requests, retests, rock cress, school bus, siese, simplesse, spring cress, stone cress, success, suggests, suppress, transgress, ts, u. s., undress, unless, uys, vanhuss, vs, word stress

3 syllables:

abs, acquiesce, banderas, battle dress, belle isle cress, bitter cress, bouncing bess, c. b. s., camping bus, ccs, charlotte russe, coalesce, cocktail dress, convalesce, dinner dress, dispossess, diving dress, downy chess, dss, e. d. s., evening dress, express bus, fancy dress, g. p. s., garden cress, garlic press, genus sus, gloomy gus, h. h. s., i. n. s., i. r. s., lcs, meadow cress, more or less, morning dress, nonetheless, o. a. s., oas, p. b. s., printing press, public press, purple cress, reassess, reinvests, repossess, rocket cress, sentence stress, shuttle bus, standing press, stds, t. b. s., tower cress, u. s. s., uss, wedding dress, winter cress, with success

4 syllables:

civilian dress, durable press, hces, hydraulic press, incline bench press, Indian cress, Japanese chess, nevertheless, officer's mess, permanent press, pony express, rotary press, tcas, ws

5 syllables:

American cress, common garden cress, damsel in distress, early winter cress, freedom of the press, garden pepper cress, military press

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Before prayng namaaz you have to be clean and it is fardh (compulsory to have wudhu. Without wudhu namaaz will not be accepted by Allah. Nammaz should be prayed with clean clohtes and in a clean place. Your body should also be covered and you should also face the Qiblah:Makkah where the Kabah is situated. Below is the namaaz insructed for MEN only.

1. First You need to make Niyyat (intention) on praying namaaz. Without niyyat namaaz will not be accepted by Allah.
2. Second you say Takbeer (Allahu Akbar) and raise your palms up to the ear lobes (but don't touch it).Then place your right hand over your left hand and place then betwen your navel and your waist. After that say Thannah.
3. Thirdly you have to read Taawouz and then Tasmiyyah (Bismillah). After, read Suratul Fatihah. After softly read Aameen. After read any verse from the quraan. After finishing this proceed to Ruku (bowing).
4. When proceeding into ruku, your back has to be 90 degrees and place your palms on your kness and spread your fingers and read Tasbeeh 3a times. After proceed to Qaumah (standing up).
5. When standing up read Samiallah~hulimanhamidah. Then read Rabanah~huwalaqalhamd. Then proceed to Sajdah.
6. When proceeding to sajdah first you go down to your knees then place you palms then your forhead then your nose (the forehead and nose must be touching the prayer mat) Also your feet should be touching each other. Then read Tasbeeh 3 times. Then sit up. Then proceed to the 2nd sajdah and follow the procedures of the 1st sajdah. Then stand up again for the 2nd rakaat.
7. The 2nd rakkat is the same as the 1st rakaat but the verse after Surah Fatihah should be after the verse on the 1st rakaat. e.g If you read Surah Kauthar on the 1st rakaat, on the 2nd raaat you have to read something after it.
8. Then go into the 2nd rukuh and follow the procedures of the 1st rukuh.
9. Then proceed again to sajdah ad follow the procedurs of the 1st rakaat's sajdah.
10. After the 2nd sajdah sit up again and this read Tashahud. When saying AshaduAllahillaha~illalahu you should raise up your index finger. After this read Durood-e-Ibraheem. And then after that read Dua-e-Mathoora. After finishing this say sallam softly first to the right of and then to the left. This is 2 rakaats finished.
11. For the 3rd and 4th rakaats you should stand up after reading Tashahud and read Surah Fatihah in the 3rd and 4th rakaats and follow the same procedures for finishing namaaz on the last rakaat.
12. For 3 rakaat salahs the third rakaat you should read it the same as the last rakkat of 4 and 2 rakkat salahs.
13. For witr salah on the last rakaat after Surah Fatihah read another verse and after that say takbeer and raise your hands to the earlobes and put your right hand over the left handand place them between your navel and your waist. Then read Dua-e-Qunoot and then follow the procedures of the last rakaat.

Other rules for namaaz:

1. Your feet have to be apart for 4 fingers. Your both foot has to face the Qiblah. Your foot has to be straight and it cannot be bent.
2. You cannot look look sideways or upwards you can't even move your eyes. If this is ommited your namaaz will be broken.
3. You cannot talk either or laugh. If you laugh your wudhu will be broken.
4. You cannot make any excessive movement e.g nudging.
5. If you happen to have a phone and it rings turn it of quickly without looking at it and making a fuss.
6. You cannot pass wind in namaaz or your wudhu will be broken.

orpheus

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Words and phrases that rhyme with us: (249 results)

1 syllable:

abts, adss, bess, besse, bless, bress, bresse, brus, brusk, bruss, bus, buss, busse, ches, chess, cress, cus, cus, cuss, dress, ers, es, ess, esse, fess, fesse, fs, fuhs, fuss, gess, gless, gress, gruss, guess, gus, guss, hess, hesse, huss, ins, jess, jus, kess, kless, klus, kness, kress, kresse, krus, kus, kuss, las, les, less, mess, muhs, nes, ness, nuss, pesce, pless, plus, pos, press, press', presse, prus, pruss, pus, puss, ques, ress, rus, russ, russe, s, 's, s., schuss, shas, sluss, stress, struss, sus, suss, tess, thus, tress, trus, truss, vess, wass, wes, wess, wuss, xus, yes

2 syllables:

address, adjusts, aggress, assess, attests, bench press, careplus, caress, cheese press, cmos, compress, confess, contests, depress, digests, digress, discuss, distress, drop press, egress, ellesse, etess, excess, express, express', finesse, fluoresce, fluoresce, forbess, full dress, impress, ines, land cress, largesse, l'express, ls, lutece, lyness, marsh cress, mistrusts, noblesse, nonpluss, obsess, oppress, possess, profess, progress, progress, protests, punch press, recess, redress, regress, repress, requests, requests, rock cress, school bus, siese, simplesse, spring cress, stone cress, success, suppress, transgress, ts, undress, unless, u. s., uys, vanhuss, vs, word stress

3 syllables:

abs, acquiesce, banderas, battle dress, belle isle cress, bitter cress, bouncing bess, camping bus, c. b. s., ccs, charlotte russe, coalesce, cocktail dress, convalesce, dinner dress, dispossess, diving dress, downy chess, dss, e. d. s., evening dress, express bus, fancy dress, garden cress, garlic press, genus sus, gloomy gus, g. p. s., h. h. s., i. n. s., i. r. s., lcs, meadow cress, more or less, morning dress, nonetheless, oas, o. a. s., p. b. s., printing press, public press, purple cress, reassess, reinvests, repossess, rocket cress, sentence stress, shuttle bus, standing press, stds, t. b. s., tower cress, uss, u. s. s., wedding dress, winter cress, with success

4 syllables:

civilian dress, durable press, hces, hydraulic press, incline bench press, indian cress, japanese chess, nevertheless, officer's mess, permanent press, pony express, rotary press, tcas, ws, ws

5 syllables:

american cress, common garden cress, damsel in distress, early winter cress, freedom of the press, garden pepper cress, military press

repress, obsess, undress, regress, etc.
Words and phrases that rhyme with possess: (190 results)

1 syllable:

abts, adss, bess, besse, bless, bress, bresse, ches, chess, cress, cus, dress, ers, es, ess, esse, fess, fesse, fs, gess, gless, gress, guess, hess, hesse, ins, jess, kess, kless, kness, kress, kresse, las, les, less, mess, nes, ness, pesce, pless, pos, press, press', presse, ques, ress, s, 's, s., stress, tess, tress, us, vess, wes, wess, yes

2 syllables:

address, aggress, assess, attests, bench press, caress, cheese press, cmos, compress, confess, contests, depress, digests, digress, distress, drop press, egress, ellesse, etess, excess, express, express', finesse, fluoresce, forbess, full dress, impress, ines, land cress, largesse, l'express, ls, lutece, lyness, marsh cress, noblesse, obsess, oppress, profess, progress, protests, punch press, recess, redress, regress, repress, requests, rock cress, siese, simplesse, spring cress, stone cress, success, suppress, transgress, ts, undress, unless, u. s., uys, vs, word stress

3 syllables:

abs, acquiesce, battle dress, belle isle cress, bitter cress, bouncing bess, c. b. s., ccs, coalesce, cocktail dress, convalesce, dinner dress, dispossess, diving dress, downy chess, dss, e. d. s., evening dress, fancy dress, garden cress, garlic press, g. p. s., h. h. s., i. n. s., i. r. s., lcs, meadow cress, more or less, morning dress, nonetheless, oas, o. a. s., p. b. s., printing press, public press, purple cress, reassess, reinvests, repossess, rocket cress, sentence stress, standing press, stds, t. b. s., tower cress, uss, u. s. s., wedding dress, winter cress, with success

4 syllables:

civilian dress, durable press, hces, hydraulic press, incline bench press, indian cress, japanese chess, nevertheless, officer's mess, permanent press, pony express, rotary press, tcas, ws

Finesse, undress, behest, dress, confess, re-dress, digress, progress, mess, finance.
Words and phrases that rhyme with success: (188 results)

1 syllable:

abts, adss, bess, besse, bless, bress, bresse, ches, chess, cress, cus, dress, ers, es, ess, esse, fess, fs, gess, gless, gress, guess, hess, hesse, ins, jess, kess, kless, kness, kress, kresse, las, les, less, mess, nes, ness, pesce, pless, pos, press, press', presse, ques, ress, s, 's, s., stress, tess, tress, us, vess, wes, wess, yes

2 syllables:

address, aggress, assess, attests, bench press, caress, cheese press, cmos, compress, confess, contests, depress, digests, digress, distress, drop press, egress, ellesse, etess, excess, express, express', finesse, fluoresce, forbess, full dress, impress, ines, land cress, largesse, l'express, ls, lutece, lyness, marsh cress, noblesse, obsess, oppress, possess, profess, progress, protests, punch press, recess, redress, regress, repress, requests, rock cress, siese, simplesse, spring cress, stone cress, suppress, transgress, ts, undress, unless, u. s., uys, vs, word stress

3 syllables:

abs, acquiesce, battle dress, belle isle cress, bitter cress, bouncing bess, c. b. s., ccs, coalesce, cocktail dress, convalesce, dinner dress, dispossess, diving dress, downy chess, dss, e. d. s., evening dress, fancy dress, garden cress, garlic press, g. p. s., h. h. s., i. n. s., i. r. s., lcs, meadow cress, more or less, morning dress, nonetheless, oas, o. a. s., p. b. s., printing press, public press, purple cress, reassess, reinvests, repossess, rocket cress, sentence stress, standing press, stds, t. b. s., tower cress, uss, u. s. s., wedding dress, winter cress

4 syllables:

civilian dress, durable press, hces, hydraulic press, incline bench press, indian cress, japanese chess, nevertheless, officer's mess, permanent press, pony express, rotary press, tcas, ws

5 syllables:

american cress, common garden cress, damsel in distress, early winter cress, freedom of the press, garden pepper cress, military press

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1. abbess

2. abdominousness

3. abjectedness

4. abjectness

5. ableness

6. abominableness

7. abortiveness

8. abrasiveness

9. abruptness

10. abscess

11. absentmindedness

12. absentness

13. absoluteness

14. absorptiveness

15. abstemiousness

16. abstersiveness

17. abstractedness

18. abstractiveness

19. abstractness

20. abstruseness

21. absurdness

22. abusiveness

23. accentless

24. acceptableness

25. access

26. accessariness

27. accessoriness

28. accidentalness

29. accommodableness

30. accommodateness

31. accommodativeness

32. accountableness

33. accurateness

34. accustomedness

35. acidness

36. acidulousness

37. acquaintedness

38. acquisitiveness

39. acridness

40. acrimoniousness

41. actionless

42. activeness

43. actless

44. actress

45. actualness

46. acuteness

47. adaptedness

48. adaptiveness

49. adaptness

50. addictedness

51. address

52. adeptness

53. adequateness

54. adhesiveness

55. adiposeness

56. admirableness

57. adorableness

58. adpress

59. adroitness

60. adulatress

61. adulteress

62. adultness

63. advantageousness

64. adventitiousness

65. adventuress

66. adventurousness

67. adverseness

68. advisedness

69. advoutress

70. affableness

71. affectedness

72. affectionateness

73. affectless

74. affirmativeness

75. afflictedness

76. affluentness

77. affrontiveness

78. agedness

79. ageless

80. agelessness

81. aggress

82. aggressiveness

83. agileness

84. agreeableness

85. agribusiness

86. aguishness

87. aidless

88. aimless

89. aimlessness

90. airiness

91. airless

92. airsickness

93. airworthiness

94. alacriousness

95. albiness

96. alertness

97. algidness

98. alikeness

99. alimentariness

100. alimentiveness
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The number one killer of children in the United States that are younger than age 14 years old age are car accidents.

The reason for this is that many car seats 95% of them are installed incorrectly or used incorrectly or not at all. Laws in the United States say that an infant must be in a rear facing car seat up to 1 year AND 20 pounds. This is the bare minimum. The American Academy of Pediactrics (sp?) (AAP) revised their guidelines to rearface up until age 2, but rear facing past age 2 is even better if the child can fit in the weight and height limits of the seat. This means that after using an infant car seat, parents are advised to switch to a convertible car seat because infant car seats, like the ones with a stay in car base, are only rated for use up to 20-25 pounds. This means that parents, after using their infant only car seat, must purchase a brand new car seat that rear faces longer. The longest rear facing car seat available in the United States is the Diono Radian RXT that rear faces up to 45 pounds. (The Diono Radian RXT used to be know as the Sunshine Kids Radian XTSL). There are many options though with convertible car seats that rear face up to 40 pounds besides the radian such as Britax convertibles like the Advocate, Boulevard, or Marathon. Common mistakes involved with the use of rear facing car seats is not having the angle correctly. For small infants (up to 1 year old) they should ride at a 45 degree angle. Convertibles may be placed at a more upright angle sometimes as high as 30 degrees. Please consult your car seat manual before changing the angle of the seat. The harness must fit at or below the child's shoulders when rear facing. The harness must not have any slack. The chest clip must be placed at arm-pit level. To remember this, the chest clip is called a chest clip, not a belly clip. When installing either a rear facing car seat or a front facing car seat with latch or with a seat belt, it must not move more than 1 inch from side to side. Do not use the tether unless it says that you can do so in the manual. Tethers are preferable if they are allowed on your rear facing seat.

Furthermore, after using a convertible, many parents choose to move their children in a booster seat. Car seats such as the Britax Frontier 85 (or Frontier 85 SICT) can leave a child in a five point harness car seat up to 85 pounds and in booster mode up to 120 pounds. Many children can be harnessed up to age 6-9 easily with this car seat (depending on the size and height of the child). When forward facing, the straps must be at or above the child's shoulders. Note that while rear facing and forward facing he strap placement is different. Like rear facing, the harness straps must not have any slack and the chest clip must be at armpit level. Front facing car seats, like rear facing, when installed, must not move more than 1 inch from side to side. The use of the tether is advised. A tether is a strap that connects to the top part of the seat. Use the tether even if you installed the car seat with the seat belt. This can limit the movement of a carseat in a limit up to 8 inches.

The misuse in booster seats is using them too soon and leaving them too early. To start a booster, children must be 4 years old AND 40 pounds to qualify for a booster. This is a guideline and may or may not be a law in your state. Some boosters allow children to use them at 30 pounds, but 4 years old and 40 pounds is best practice. This means that if the child is 6 years old at 35 pounds they should still be in a 5 point harness car seat because this is an "AND" requirement.

Seat belts in cars fit the average adult body. To leave a booster, the guideline is that children should be in a booster up until they are 4 feet 9 inches tall or if they fit the adult seat belt. Many parents mistaken that after using a 5 point harness front facing car seat they can automatically move their child into an adult seat belt. In the United States, laws vary with booster seat use but 8 years old is generally the cut off age. This could prove dangerous if your 9 year old does not fit the adult seat belt.

Booster seats can only be used if there is a lap AND shoulder belt in that seating position. High back versions must be used if the vehicle does not have headrests like in some vans. High back versions are more preferable because they postion the shoulder belt correctly on the child. Also, they offer protection for side impact car crashes. Many parents are mistaken that booster seats have to be crash tested. Booster seats are not required to crash test at all because the vehicle seat belt restrains the child in a crash. (Diono, formally known as Sunshine Kids, publishes all of their crash test information). Anyhow, the job of booster seats are to boost the child up so the vehicle lap and shoulder belt fits correctly. Correct use of a booster means that the lap and shoulder belt does not ride up on the stomach and does not cut across the neck. Different booster seats may have to be used with different vehicles because some boosters may not position the lap and shoulder belt correctly.

To determine if a child is ready to be out of a booster seat and to use the adult seat belt the child must pass the 5 step test:

Be tall enough to sit without slouching

keep his/her knees and buttocks against the vehicle seat back

keep his/her kness completely bent over the edge of the seat

keep his/her feet flat on the floor

Be able to be comfortably seated this way, AND

The vehicle seat belt must be positioned correctly across the child's hips and the shoulder belt must be positioned correctly across the test.

All of these must apply. Although parents are given that 4 feet 9 inches is the magic number, some children even at 4 feet 9 inches may not fit the adult seat belt correctly in a vehicle. Age does not matter with booster seat use, size matters and children are all different sizes, so children may not reach 4 feet 9 inches until they are between 8-12 years of age.

In addition to all this information on child restraints, all children 13 and under should ride in the back seat as air bags are not designed for children. If a child must sit in the front seat, put the seat as far back as possible and then use a booster seat if the seat belt does not fit the child.

Remember car accidents are the number one killer of children in the United States. Your child has a better chance of dying in a car accident, than by drowning, burning, or by catching a deadly disease.

Do what is best for your child, for anyone who is reading this. Remember your manual is your friend. I'm only 16 and I memorized all of this information, so you can also. I might be wrong about "all children 13 and under should ride in the back seat" it could be age "12" or "14". Sorry for any gramatical error, but make sure you read your car seat manual AND YOUR vehicle manual. If you lost it, you old geezers, go online and find it. Read it. Read it. It's important that you read your vehicle manual because you may be unable to use latch in the center seating position or your latch anchors to your vehicle may fail after a certain weight like at 40 pounds you must restrain the car seat with the seat belt because the anchors may fail. "Fail" may not necessarily mean that the anchors do not restrain the car seat, but that they may bent out of heck after in an accident.

Some other information may be that the center seating position in the back is that safest because in a side impact you do not hit the door. Common sense huh? Make sure though you install it correctly in the center. You can obviously only place one child there. I would recommend that you place the rear facing seats on the outside and place the boostered child in the center (if there is a lap and should belt available there) because rear facing seats are better off than your boostered child.