lol I don't even get this. What lesson would he be learning by not using a booster seat?
None. It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard (until last night) and I told him so. He grudgingly relented, but I think it was mostly to stop me from talking.
In case anyone is keeping score: DH loves DS more because he is willing to sacrifice his lifestyle to pay for a top notch education (btw, he'd also rather be no money than new money. Which further cements the fact that he is delusional). However, he doesn't really care about safety because car seats for too long are too helicopter-y. My husband would confound the breeziness scale test.
Sorry you're dealing with so much strife right now, Moxie. I was thinking about this yesterday...it sounds like your husband is similar to mine, in that his identity is largely wrapped around his smarts and his pedigree (my husband went to an Ivy undergrad, and excelled at all math related crap). Unlike what it sounds like your husband had, though, there was no financial support for my DH earning this pedigree, and now I am stuck paying for his stupid Ivy league degree that allows his mom (who got to stay at home) to happily parade around in his alma mater's sweatshirt and brag to her friends. I think that keeps me a bit jaded about these things.