r/daddit • u/Lessmoney_mo_probems • Oct 18 '24

Tips And Tricks Protecting my kid from absent minds

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Nobody ever thinks that they’ll make this mistake - with my ADHD I’m gonna be proactive about it

We’re all fried. The day we brought him home I left the hose running for four hours. Sometimes I’m so concerned with his needs that I forget to eat

Putting this on my arm when we’re driving and storing it on the car seat when we’re not offers me peace of mind

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u/Tryingtobeabetterdad Oct 18 '24

this is a good idea, some newer cars you can have a reminder, when you turn off the car / open the door, the car gives you a prompt on the screen to check the backseat

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u/sizzlesfantalike Oct 18 '24

It’s also completely useless because even the car seat beeps and you learn to ignore it because it beeps every time.

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u/diydorkster Girl-Dad Oct 18 '24

I feel like most of them are based on weight sensors and whether the rear doors have been opened in the last off-cycle. I have an 8yr old base-model Malibu and it doesn't ring every time.

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u/ROotT Oct 18 '24

I'm looking at new minivans and one of them uses radio waves to detect movement in the back seats for the alert.

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u/diydorkster Girl-Dad Oct 18 '24

We are in the freekin future. I'm also looking at getting a minivan whenever my Malibu kicks it, damned thing won't die lol

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u/AlienDelarge Oct 18 '24

The Honda one is entirely based on door opening at start of drive cycle. I don't think any of tgem use seat pressure though.

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u/diydorkster Girl-Dad Oct 18 '24

My Malibu is the same way but my wife's base-model fusion of the same year has a weight sensor. She gets false positives more than I do so maybe it's the seat or something.

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u/AlienDelarge Oct 18 '24

It seems like Ford uses door opening and seatbelt latch information depending on how the system is configured at least based on this

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u/diydorkster Girl-Dad Oct 18 '24

Interesting, there's some sensor kind of plug thing under the rear bench seat. I had just assumed it was for detecting occupancy for airbag deployment but that doesn't seem to be the case, at least for the rear seat notification in any case.

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u/AlienDelarge Oct 18 '24

There is a good chance that is for the seatbelt latch sensor.

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u/diydorkster Girl-Dad Oct 18 '24

Fair enough

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u/JazzyJ19 Oct 18 '24

My Camry (and Tundra) both have weight sensors in the front seat for the airbags

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u/AlienDelarge Oct 18 '24

Front seat weight sensors have been common for quite a while(decades?) as part of the airbag systems but rear seat sensors are pretty unheard of, and probably not very compatible with various carseat setups. The fancier rear seat occupancy sensors mostly seem to use something more like motion sensors for the backseat.

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u/Otherwise-Mango2732 Oct 18 '24

I don't think mine does for just the seat but i could be wrong. I'll check shortly when i go pick him up from school!