Well, first off, I must confess to not coming up with this myself but was one day following a car on 128 during heavy traffic. I noticed the man in front of me had his rear-view mirror inclined as in the picture here. I wanted to shout at him: "Buddy! Get a clue - how can you not notice that sucker is way out of alignment?" Then, I saw the hint of a car seat (as, indeed, you can see in this picture as well) and, like a bolt of spring-time lightening, I got it.
When you are a solo parent driving with a pre-verbal kid in a car seat, you keep tempting death by periodically glancing back - you just can't help yourself. I have in the past resorted to re-angling the rear-view mirror so as to render it worthless for traffic (but very helpful to see if Sebastien is smiling, sleeping, pouting, in pain, etc.). This genius of a dad in front of me had found the optimal solution: see kid on one side of mirror, see traffic on the other. Would that I had come up with the solution myself...
Case closed.
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