About Joyce Slaton
Joyce Slaton is the commerce editor at BabyCenter, the world's number one digital parenting resource. She is a certified child passenger safety technician who loves to write, sew, and cook. Slaton lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.

Experience
Slaton is an expert in child car seat safety. She is certified to install and check child passenger restraints, as well as educate parents on installing and using car seats. Slaton has been a Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST) since 2016, and in that time has installed and learned about hundreds of car seats. Slaton has also been writing professionally about parenting, children's products, and women's health for BabyCenter since 2005.

Education
Slaton has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida.

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