It's a very old tradition. Leading strings go back to at least the 16th century, you'll even find teenagers in portraits with symbolic ones to show they weren't available for marriage.
It went out of fashion in the mid 20th century because Dr Spock and others were against them, but came back in the 90s. Never seen them used for anything but 2-4 year olds in the "wander" phase here though.
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You haven’t seen those kids with leash backpacks? You can’t go out and not run into them.
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The internet isn't real life and a lot of stuff normalised by people on the internet is very uncommon in real life
It's a very old tradition. Leading strings go back to at least the 16th century, you'll even find teenagers in portraits with symbolic ones to show they weren't available for marriage.
It went out of fashion in the mid 20th century because Dr Spock and others were against them, but came back in the 90s. Never seen them used for anything but 2-4 year olds in the "wander" phase here though.