Nothing is worse than a parent thinking one of their worst nightmares is coming true.
An anonymous mom — who shared her frightening story on Reddit — did a double take when she suddenly thought she forgot her daughter in the backseat of a hot car.
Thankfully that wasn’t the case — this mom just got fooled by a poorly designed Disney princess car seat that she normally straps her daughter into.
The very strange car seat — which retails for $249.99 — features an image of Cinderella’s entire upper body, with her head plastered on the headrest and her arms along the arm rests.
You could now understand why this mother freaked out in the first place.
Sharing her experience, the concerned mom wrote: “Out of the corner of my eye I thought that I left my daughter strapped into the hot car all day.”
“Nearly gave me a heart attack. Who designed this??” she continued.
Clearly, this mom was not alone with how she felt about this wildly bizarre car seat. Nearly 3,000 agitated Reddit users agreed with her in the comment section of the post.
“This is honestly the creepiest car seat I have ever seen,” one person wrote. “I also wonder how many passersby are ready to call the cops on you until they realize it’s just the seat.”
“Your daughter is going to grow up with weird dreams and memories of skibidi Cinderella smiling down at her during long travels,” a user commented, referring to the viral Gen Z skibidi toilet meme.
“Oh hello, my sleep paralysis demon,” another comment read.
However, other commenters questioned why this mom ever thought buying this creepy car seat would be a good idea.
“It’s not even like it’s something hidden that they couldn’t have possibly known about when they bought it. It’s literally the main feature,” a valid point one person made.
“Right lol? WHO buys this? It’s terrible,” another commenter shared.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children remain in rear-facing car seats as long as possible, until they reach the seat’s highest weight or height limit — which is typically when a child turns four.
From there, the child graduates to forward-facing seats with a harness — like the creepy Cinderella one — until they outgrow that as well.
Knowing that, this commenter brought up a good point about the safety of this specific princess car seat: “Unless OP’s (original poster) daughter also has an extremely long neck, the headrest is either too high or the shoulder straps are too low,” they explained.
“They (the shoulder straps) should not start way below the shoulder (and you can see the slits higher up where they should be when configured for bigger kids),” the concerned commenter added.
