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Besides, it’s not like they’re dog leashes on a collar. Every child leash I’ve ever seen is a cute little animal backpack where the “leash” is a long tail.
Mine was a little backpack harness thing. The leash clipped to the middle of my back. I don't remember ever being bothered by it.
Every time I’ve seen a kid with one they genuinely don’t even seem to understand it’s there
I spend time around children on a weekly basis, I grew up with younger siblings
and yet
I plan to have kids.
holy hell i do not understand people
Yeah I used to run away all the time. Not maliciously or anything but my little ADHD ass had no interest in what my parents were doing and loved to run around, climb things, hide in various places, and all sorts of other things that aren't great when you're in the mall, or in the woods.
we didn't have stroads and murder trucks for most of those thousands of years. kids don't give a fuck and don't know any different.
imagine being this concerned over the dignity of a 4 year old. let's revolt over bedtime while we're at it.
have fun burying your kids that got run over by some jackass in a vanity truck.
those things should be in your threat model, yes. and you should take appropriate steps to address them, same as putting a harness on a small child is sometimes appropriate to address the risk of them running off, especially into traffic.
I live in an urban area with that's full of young families with kids and the only leashes I've seen is when there's daycares/nannies out with 5+ kids to look after. No one I know with kids has even considered this as far as I'm aware.
Idk, a child leash could’ve prevented Harambe’s death, and I still a little bit believe that’s where the timeline split
Yes this joke is incredibly stupid I’m aware
But nothing distasteful like a backpack or a wrist strap. Put the little womb goblins in collars.
9 percent of y'all haven't played the introduction to the totally unproblematic David Cage classic Heavy Rain and it shows
idk I'm pro child-leash as long as it's one of those cute animal backpack ones and not just like a dog leash or something. kids are small and quick and can just dart off into a big crowd
Yeah kids are kinda dumb. They will occasionally just start running full speed in the random direction of a shiny object; pedestrians, buses or loose tigers be damned
I've never seen or heard of a child leash that isn't a backpack harness sort of thing with the leash attached to the middle of the back.
My parents had too many kids to let them on their own, 4-point harnesses and reins for most of us at various points
did they ever have you pull a wagon 2 by 2 like draught horses?
Balto reboot but it's a team of sled children bringing back medicine for a sick dog
Lmao, they're such weirdos. Just crate train your kid, it's not that hard.
I think it's fine depending on the situation. It's not something parents should completely depend on and abuse.
Not only did my dad have a leash as a kid (in the 50s) but my grandparents even built an outdoor playpen for him. When a neighbor saw it the first time he said "wow y'all must have one mean dog." My grandma told me that as a kid and I have yet to stop giving my dad crap for it
my mum used to put me on one when we went to big events where i could easily get lost in a crowd
it attaches to the wrist, not like a collar lmao
that's interesting. the ones i'm most familiar with are like little backpacks that fasten across the chest
i think doing this to a kid probably harms their development in some way, but it's not particularly traumatizing, and with the stigma generally attached to "letting your kids run wild" (because this world doesn't accommodate children nearly enough), i can see why parents would resort to it.
okay more serious answer i think they're qualitatively different modes of restraint. a child can register their immediate desire for independence more easily holding hands, and that independence can be granted more easily and revoked less easily, so its use can be better tailored to circumstances, and that lesson of self control can arrive quicker. if what is forbidden is always dictated by the parents, what does it matter to the child the reason beyond "because i said so"?
i'm just talking out my ass. i'm not an expert. i did used to be a child tho.
I was a quiet kid with the autistic tendency towards elopement. I'd Irish Goodbye and go wherever I damn well pleased (no moms no masters :soviet-huff:)
I never got leashed but I got confined to my stroller which was even more freedom-restricting. Leashing me would've been better
I'm not on the spectrum but i do have ADHD and did the exact same shit. Would walk off in the store. Would walk off at the amusement park. Would walk off wherever the fuck just because. Hell, I still do it, but I'm an adult now so nobody can tell me not too. Tbh this is why I'm not necessarily against "leashing" assuming it's one of those backpacks or something, even though it does look odd
Okay but what if you have several kids, and some of them are both four years old and have ADHD, and you're a single mom who needs to do shopping and errands while also keeping your kids safe, but doesn't want to completely restrict their movement by strapping them in to a stroller or carrying them the whole time (which you can't bc you've got to use your hands for other things).
Can't you just hold the kids hand? It's what I do with my nieces and nephews
Literally never seen a child leash in my life
They usually don’t look like “leashes” the ones I’ve seen are usually cute little animal backpacks with a long tail
Yeah, until the kid starts squirming and screaming bc they don't want to hold your hand anymore. A leash gives them freedom of movement while keeping them within a safe distance.
Yeah but what if some random dude trips on the leash, twirls around in the air, landing head first into an open manhole, resulting in a comically large growth on their head, and steam starts pouring out of their ears as their face turns red, propelling them back up, and they grab you by the neck and squeeze you like a paper cup, catapulting you into a nearby river where you then drown?
When one of my kids tries to elope, I'll hold their hand or carry them through the transition. They hate hand holding, they pull hard on their wrists and it is really scary. A lease would be a better solution IMO.
