About Buckle & Buggy

Buckle & Buggy organizes car seats and strollers by stage and by safety rating. There are currently 67 pages covering 50 products across 57 guides, roundups, comparisons and reviews.

The premise is simple. Every car seat legally sold in the United States passed the same federal crash standard, which means the interesting questions are not about which seat is safest — they are about which seat fits your child now, which installs tightly in your car, and how long it will keep them rear-facing. Those are answerable from published specifications, and that is what we publish.

Everything here is free to read. The site is funded by affiliate commission from Amazon, disclosed on every page that carries a product link and explained in full in our affiliate disclosure.

Every page on this site is written by Janet H., Owner, Janet Media Group.

Janet H. is the hands-on owner behind Janet Media Group and writes every page on Buckle & Buggy. She is not a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician and does not crash-test car seats — this site's job is to put the published ratings, manufacturer limits and recall records in front of you, sourced and dated, so you can make the call yourself.

What we do instead is documented reading. For every product: the manufacturer's own specification page and manual, every figure recorded against the page it came from, a check against NHTSA's recall database, and confirmation the model is currently sold — all dated. For every safety claim: a federal or pediatric source, cited and dated. That is a smaller claim than most review sites make, and it is one you can verify.

Buckle & Buggy is owned and operated by Janet Media Group. The site, its content and its editorial decisions belong to them.

There is no phone number and no postal address on this site, and that is deliberate rather than an omission — Buckle & Buggy is a national research publisher with no premises to visit and no phone line to answer. The one way to reach us is by email, and it goes to a real inbox: contact@buckleandbuggy.com.

1. 1.Invent a safety rating. NHTSA and IIHS both block automated access to their rating databases, so we could not verify per-model figures from the primary source. Rather than reprint numbers from secondary sites, every product page links the official lookup tool. It looks less authoritative. It is more honest.
2. 2.Claim testing we did not do. No 'in our testing', no 'we installed this in six vehicles', no test lab. Our scores are editorial judgments against published criteria, labeled as such, and deliberately excluded from the page's structured data so no search engine can present them as an official product rating.
3. 3.Print a price we cannot verify. There is no live price data layer on this site, so every button reads 'Check price on Amazon'. A stale number on a $400 purchase is worse than no number.
4. 4.Publish a law page we could not source. A planned state guide is missing because that state's statutes site returns no readable text to any automated request. We name the gap on the laws page rather than filling it from memory.
5. 5.Publish a testimonial or review of this site. We have none, so there is no testimonials section anywhere here. Inventing one would be fraud.
6. 6.Recommend on commission. Where the budget option is the better buy, it is the top pick — and on several roundups here, it is.

• NHTSA — federal standards, ease-of-use ratings, installation guidance and the recall database.
• IIHS — booster belt-fit ratings, which are the most decision-relevant published rating in that category.
• American Academy of Pediatrics — stage transition guidance and the evidence on time spent in a car seat.
• CDC — child passenger safety data.
• Safe Kids Worldwide — installation technique and the free inspection station network.
• FAA — aircraft rules, including the certification label wording and the prohibition on boosters during takeoff and landing.
• State statutes and transportation departments — for every law page, read from the state's own source.

None of this replaces your car seat manual, your vehicle manual, or a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician. Inspection stations are free and they can see your car, which we cannot. Our full method is on the methodology page, and our standards are in the editorial policy.