I am very sorry about the loss of your boy.  / Sarah Swartwout (None)

I am very sorry! I was reading what happened that day and honestly I cried. Thank you for spreading word about how important a 5 harness car seat is. I'm sure you saved a lot of childrens' lives.

 Praying for you all. 

 RIP Kyle.

xxx

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Incredible special gift & a darling guardian angel  / The Andonov-Perisa Family (special friend from a far )
augustus 24 2009 Dear Christine and family I was so heart-wrenched after seeing Kyle’s video and learning more about your beautiful son and your courageous family. Words cannot express how deeply sorry I am for Kyle and your family. I wish I could miraculously change the past so that Kyle could physically be with you today. I know however he is still with you and your family in spirit and soul and protecting millions of little children everyday my son included. What a special little guardian angel he is!! You should be so proud. Your family has truly protected and saved multitudes of families all over the world. Kyle is a blessing and an incredible gift and continues eternally to be so to your family and to the world. The first time I saw Kyle’s video was in 2007 and it moved me tremendously. To this day every time I hear Kyle’s song my eyes fill with tears. From what I know he is such a beautiful boy inside and out and I wish my family had the pleasure of meeting him personally. Recently (Aug 09) after having a car-seat conversation with my brother I searched my email inbox for the email containing Kyle’s video. As I played the video again (in tears) I learned of the foundation that had been formed in Kyle’s honor to spread awareness of car-seat safety. I quickly made a donation to show my support and to help you keep the memory of Kyle love alive and touching others. The two parental website communities to which I belong received emails from me encouraging them to create “child passenger safety” buttons on their websites and to link Kyle’s video the foundation website and your new “hip monkey” store supporting the foundation. I truly hope this will spread the word further and further. I even decided to resend Kyle’s video in an email to all my friends and family to refresh your important message and to make them aware of Kyle’s foundation. Having also recently learned of memorabilia for Kyle I now heart-touchingly wear a blue Kyle wristband and have Kyle’s Kindness card on my dining room server table next to many pictures of my family and close friends. I guess we have adopted Kyle as part of our extended family – a darling guardian angel of our family. I will pass along Kyle’s kindness cards in my neighborhood and Kyle’s cute Turtis buttons and try to enlighten everyone I know about child passenger safety. Even though I am somewhat busy if there are other ways I can help please let me know. I would love to do more to help. Please do keep me as a friend of your foundation and even though we never met a friend of your lovely family. I am keeping your family and Kyle in my thoughts and prayers. With warm kindest regards Ivanka Andonov (with husband Ed Perisa son Edward Jacques Perisa and expected Miss December due on 12/25/09) Close

Thank-you / Christie

Your video was posted on a baby board that I was a member on years ago and it hit me hard.  At the time my daughter was still in a regular forward facing seat (rated to 40lbs) but last year when she was nearing 40lbs and we had a new baby needing her convertible seat we went and bought a higher rated harness seat for our 4 year old.  It was one of those things that we had to do because we had seen your video.   Last week we were in an accident and were struck from the side in an intersection.  I had my two girls with me and I am 6 months pregnant.  We were spun 180 degrees and the van flipped onto the driver side.  My daughter was in her 5pt harness anchored and tethered my 16 month old in her convertible with the seat belt still rear facing.  When I looked back the first thing I thought was how glad I was that my 4 year old was in her 5pt harness and was in exactly the same place she was when I put her in.  She sits on the driver side and I can only imagine all the things that could have happened if she had been in a booster seat.  Both girls came out without a scratch I had minor injuries and I owe so much to you sharing your story.  We are certainly on a mission to spread the word about extended rear facing and extended harnessing.  It frustrates me to no end that there is very little awareness and education about the move to booster seats at 40lbs.  Thank-you so much for ensuring a safe outcome in our accident.  Kyle may have just saved my daughter's life or at the very least ensured she was not hurt in the slightest in our accident.  

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He's your angel!  / Ronda Enriquez

I was looking for infomation on car seats for my kids and that's when I saw the video and the web site. All I could do was cry.  I'm deeply sorry for you and your family's lost.  Now I'll be looking for the right car seats for my kids. He's watching over you and yours. This story will safe more little lifes.

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Because of your story  / Maggie Mallon
Because of your story I made sure we bought a Britax Marathon for our Daughter who is due any day now.

I know nothing can bring your son back, but please take heart in knowing that by sharing your story you made one more child safer.


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project for kyle  / Charlotte Caldwell
hi my name is charlotte i had a project to do in my child devolopment class on car seat safety i did my project on your son kyle and the teacher loved it even had a teacher ask to make a copy of my project to send to her daughter in law i ended up getting a 100 on this project is there anyway i can send it to the miller family i would love to send it to you please reply Close

Car seat Project  / Samantha Clark (caring stranger )

Hello, my name is Samantha Clark, and I was assigned a project in my Child Development class.  I have to do an oral presentation for car seats.  Truth of the matter is, I didn't really think it was all that fun, or that it mattered very much.  That was before I saw Kyle's story.  I knew that car seats were supposed to be safe, and that seat BELTS were supposed to be 100% effective.

Supposed to.  That's the thing.  They don't always work, (as we've seen from his story) and I now have this little angel's help to reinforce that fact to my peers, and the parents of the preschoolers that I work with everyday.  The little ones in my life mean so much to me, (I'm only 14, and I work with 20 preschoolers, have 2, almost 3 nephews, and 1 neice) and I would hate to have them come in harm's way.  As Christine said in writing his story, the car is one of the most dangerous situations you can put a child in. 

I thank Christine, Kyle, Kevin, and Katie for spreading the message of car seat safety, I guarantee that you've helped thousands of people, and those people have helped other people, and those people have passed the message on, and so forth.  With this power of knowledge, I can help the preschoolers parents, my sisters with their children, and even my own sister, who should still be in a 5 point harness.

Kyle, by the way your mommy talks about you, you seem like a very cute, innocent, funloving little boy, and didn't deserve to be taken from this world.  We needed you here, Kyle, but just think about how many people you're helping with the knowledge your parents now know.  Think about it like you're a little superhero!!  You're saving lives, one car seat at a time.  Congratulations buddy!! I wish I could be more superhero-like, and maybe I can because of you.  Let's work hard to save more people, okay?  I don't even know you, but I love and miss you, and I'm sure I'll get to meet you one day.  Once again, thank you little angel.

~Samantha

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Sorry / Melinda Parson
I just read your story. I am so sorry. I watched the video a while ago and every time I watch it I start to cry. I have a 3 year old and i don't know what I would do without him. I am going to get him a new car seat tonight. Thank you for the information on them. Kyle is my sons guardian angle. He was a cutie. Take care Close

an angel in heaven  / Thomas Napoli (a friend forever )

i would like to just take the time to send my condolescences out to kyles's friends and family on his very very sad loss. i was watching the youtube video and it broke my heart, but i know kyle is looking down on you smiling and watching over u. I myself have been telling my girlfriend who has 2 kids( one is 5 and one is 4) that u can tell the 5 year old out of his car seat and buckle him in, but after watching your video and i will most definitely tell her not too.. you guys are absolutely amazing in what your doing and how strong all of u are. please email me back if u can and if u need anything at all please let me know.

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Beautiful Angel In Heaven  / Marcia De Matos
Wow, I just wanted to say that your son was wonderful and in himself a beautiful gift. I have a 3 year old son that reminds of your son and I could only imagine your pain. I want you know that your story really touched my heart and I think about Kyle everytime I look at my kids. After reading your story, I have looked into buying a regent considering my 6 year old daughter is in a booster right now. Thank you for sharing your story, it takes a lot of courage to read much less write. I will never forget you, your family and your sweet little boy Kyle, you are always in my prayers. God Bless You, until you meet you baby again! Close

Kyle - hope you are smiling down from Heaven!  / The Whitmire Family (admirer from afar )

I chose this picture out of all of the ones you posted since I am also a father.  I have a daughter who's almost a year old and she sometimes sits in my lap, just like Kyle is doing here.  I feel like such a powerful man when I am protecting her while she is sitting in my lap.  I have read your story and I was deeply touched.  I know (knowing what you knew) that, although you protected Kyle since he was born... you couldnt' protect him that fateful day of his passing.  I'm sure you have since gotten over any guilt from this (at least I hope you have), but if you haven't, I (just a stranger, I know...) want you to know that you did the best you could as a loving Father.  The pictures you've posted definitely prove that.  

I take a ton of pictures of our daughter and I have plenty that look very similar to yours.  It really saddens me that Kyle's life was cut short - he had such a loving family (on earth, anyway - Heaven awaits a joyful reunion, for certain).  For reasons we do not yet know (but we WILL know someday, for certain, I feel it in my heart!),  God chose Kyle to leave this earth.  Children die every day of accidents, disease, etc....  and it just doesn't seem fair.  Good people die, while bad ones keep living full lives.  Again... one day, we'll all know why.  God has a master plan...  it's just unfortunate (or fortunate, if you are one of the children Kyle's story has saved from death) that Kyle was part of those plans.   I'm rambling on... sorry about that.

In closing, I just want to say that your family seems a lot like mine - I can sense it in your story and pictures, also.  I can relate on a lot of different points.  But I cannot fathom the pain you and your family have endured these past ffew years.  My heart goes out to you... and I look forward to meeting Kyle one day in Heaven (and to tell him what he already knows: he's a hero - and so is his Daddy - and the rest of his family too!).  Thanks for sharing your story and I'm VERY grateful to see how sharing it has helped so many other families w/children in need. 

 

PS -  Thanks for creating and posting the videos on YouTube!

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your are great  / Mandy Anderson
i think that what you are doing is great you say you dont know why this happened to you and you may never know in this life maybe it was so you could came and tell all us mother about it so it does not happen to another mommy what you are doing is great i have to say when my second child was born he got my daughters 5 point harnesh seat and she was big enough for a buster seat but now that i have read your story i dont want her in it right now im not working but when i get enogh money to buy one i so am i dont want this to happen to my kid thank you so much i just lost my uncle in the metro link crash on 9/12/2008 and i say y my uncle but he loved god more then anyone i know and i say maybe he took the place of someone that did not believe in god and now they do because there servived we will never know y these things happen but all we can do is speak up about them so thank you Close

Thank You!  / Brooke McLemore

Hi, my name is Brooke McLemore and I just wanted to share with you how your story has impacted the lives of my family.  My husband and I have two children ages 4 and almost 2.  Last year I visited the elite car seat website to order my son Landon (4) a new car seat.  I had contemplated putting him in a booster seat, but wanted to research it first.  This is when I came across your story.  In tears after watching the video, I opted not to put him in a booster and I purchased the Britax Regent carseat you spoke of.  One month later, the kids and I were in an accident in which I overcorrected on a 2 lane highway going 60 mph when we came up a hill and around a curve to see an 18 wheeler in our lane.  We rolled three times before our car came to a stop.  Miraculously and only by the grace of God, my kids walked away without a scratch!  I had several pieces of glass in my legs and face from our shattered windshield that required stitches, but that was it.  My car was totalled and by the looks of it, you would have never known anyone survived.  Medical personnel and rescue help commented on our carseats (my daugher sits in a Britax roundabout) and how well they protected my childen.  I believe that it was God that protected us all that day just as he led me to your story a month before.  I have forwarded the video to many people over the past year and your story has impacted them as well.  I cannot imagine your pain, but I admire you for taking a stand and in turn impacting our lives and no telling how many more.  Thank you for your courage, it is inspiring.

Matt, Brooke, Landon and Lexsey McLemore

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Thank you  / Robyn DeGaetano (none)

Thank you so much for sharing your story with thousands of us out here with small children.  My husband has been trying to pressure me into putting our 5-year-old daughter in a booster seat and I have been resisting, and now I finally have something I can show him that will prove that my instincts were right!  You video brought tears to my eyes instantly, and I cried the whole way through - I can scarcely imagine the pain your family has gone through.  God bless you and your family for taking your tragic experience and using it to save thousands of children out there in the world...

Robyn

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1st time mom...  / Mialee
I can't thank you enough for spreading your message.  I'm currently researching convertible car seats for my 6 month old son.  My initial thought was to buy something to get him to 40 lbs and then move him to a booster seat.  THANK YOU for showing me the reason to buy a model that will keep him in a harness as long as possible. Close

Thank you  / Christina And Alexander Oats (None)

Thank you for your video on Youtube.  Your family and Kyle are in my prayers and thoughts very often.  I am sorry for your loss. 

I first saw your video back in late 2006/early 2007 when I was pregnant with my first son.  It brought me to tears that first time and now I can't stop thinking about your family and Kyle when i hear this song.  It touches such a tender spot in my heart and fills me with joy for my own son as well as such sadness for the loss of such a beautiful vibrant boy.  I have since become a very strong advacate for proper carseat usage, extended rearfacing and extended 5 pt. harnessing for children in the car.  Sometimes i am sure that I get annoying among my friends but it is such a simple move to help protect our children.

Thank you for getting the message out.  Your family, along with Kyle will always have a spot in my heart.

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I am so sorry for your loss  / Tanya Phillips
I could never express to you how sorry I am for your loss of Kyle.  Even though it has been 3 years, I know the pain must be just as deep.  I have 3 children, and after an injury that my 3 year old sustained from his car seat (not from an accident, but from a design flaw), I was researching a new car seat for him.  He is 40 pounds and was in a booster seat with the 5 point harness but was about to max out on the weight.  I had the booster that could have the harness removed and then used with the seat belt.  I have never felt comfortable using the seat belt and kept putting it off.  I told family/friends that I would use the seat belt when my son turned 4, but in actuality I wasn't sure when I'd do it.  When looking online to find another car seat I came across a link for your youtube video.  I watched it in horror, and suddenly my "paranoia" was right in front of my face---my worst nightmare, was your reality.  I called my husband and told him with car seat I wanted to buy.  I said I want to get the Britax Regent for Denis (my son).  He said "how much does this car seat cost?".  I said "$279.00"  He was silent.  I said I want to buy 2 of them.  One for Katherine (our 2 1/2 year old) that was in an identical booster as my son's.  He said "well, if that what will make you feel safer."  I said that it would, and that night we went to Buy Buy Baby and bought 2 Britax Regents for our children.  I feel a lot safer with them, and your son could very well saves my children's lives someday.  I also have a 10 month old who is rear facing in an Evenflo convertible seat.  I am trying to sell some of my baby stuff that she has outgrown so that I can buy a Britax Marathon and keep her rear facing for as long as possible.  Your son DID NOT die in Vain.  I watched your video, and I read your story, and I LISTENED to your message and took your advice.  I could never thank you enough.  Your son will be in my mind and heart every time I buckle my 3 children into thier car seats.  Please accept my most sincere and heartfelt condolences on your tragically painful loss.  You will be in my prayers! Close

Your beauitful baby boy...  / Priscilla Troy

I have just watched your video on youtube and directed myself to this memorial site. I don't even know how to put the words together to express my heartache at the lose of your beauitful baby boy.

Thankyou for being so brave in sharing your story to prevent this from happening to another child. As a mother i know how hard it was for me just to read your story little own have had to sit down and write it. I know your kyle would be smiling down on you and your family everyday. His smiling little face will forever hold a special place in my heart.

Priscilla

And please know your message has been reached all over, even to a little place called Umina Beach in Sydney Australia.

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Thank you  / De Ann Letourneau

I want to send my prayers to you and your family.  Your story had me in tears and SO grateful for you and Kyle to share your story.  Kyle was here to teach us about more safety!

I have 3 young daughters, 6, 3 & 1.  I had moved the 6yr (then 5) to a booster....thinking she was a big girl and just about to move our 3yr old to a booster. 

After reading Kyles message to us...I quickly changed my mind and am firmly keeping them in 5-pt.  Well, that was 1 yr ago and I was just about to move them again and somehow found Kyle's message again.  I watched it again and AGAIN felt as if it was God & Kyle telling me NOT TO!!!  Why else would his message appear again to me?

We have always used Britax, just wanted to tell you that Kyle's message has helped many make better, more informed decisions for safety.  Thank you.  And Thank you to Kyle who is helping spread the message every day!

You are truly a blessed family to have had him in your lives and be able to share the message with other families!

God Bless you and THANK YOU!

De Ann

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I received an angel the day yours moved to heaven.  / Christa Clark
I just read of this story tonight, while searching car seats on a local web site.  My daughter was born May 29, 2005. I received my angel the day your angel moved on to heaven. Today, Sunday, June 1, 2008, we celebrated my daughter's 3rd birthday and I realized that as my family celebrated our angel, your family must be grieving your angel. As a parent of a 3 year old daughter and a 16 month old son (who are ironically 20 months apart) I cannot imagine the heartache and tradgedy your familly has encountered. I am moved to tears by your story and can't help but feel a connection to Kyle and your family. My heart aches for such a loss and yet I can somehow find a peace in knowing that Kyle is in heaven. I don't know if you have ever heard of the song "Jesus has a rocking chair," but if you ever have the opportunity to listen to it, I'm sure it will provide some comfort in knowing that although you no longer care for your son here on earth, he couldn't be taken better care of now. I pray for comfort and peace for your family and hope that time will continue to heal your wounds. Kyle is proud of your family and his big sister for the way you have helped so many families and children, and the number of lives you have saved. Thank you for your contributions and for sharing your story with the world, as I can not imagine how hard this must be.  As my family continues to celebrate the birth of my daughter from year to year, we will now remember your son Kyle on this special day as well. We will realease a blue balloon for him on this day as my daughter grows older to honor his life. I do beleive that everything happens for a reason and everyone has a devine purpose.  Although Kyle's life was ended all to soon, I still believe that he fulfilled his purpose on earth, that he was sent here to do. He has touched so many lives and will continue to do so through the foundation you have created in his memory.  I am sharing this story with everyone I know and will be making a contribution to your foundation in his memory. Your story has definitely "hit-home" and made me consider, and re-consider, a lot of things when it comes to my children. I will definetely be more consciencious of their car seats and their safety, for you just can not put a price tag on that. I will also take a step back and realize that everyday with my children is a gift and a blessing; and on those days when I am stressed out and wishing I had a job just to get a break, that voice will be reminding me not to take for granted the days and the time I do have to spend with my children, at home. For you never know when Jesus will call them home to heaven and as hard as it is, you will just have to let them go. Close