Leashed Kids....
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Personally, I'd get a bigger kick out of watching parents using a clicker and a bag of super-yummie-treats over seeing a child leashed.
Leashing is too easy.
Leashing is too easy.
My brother was a leashed child and my mum wrote a parenting column! He was an exceptionally difficult child so it was much safer to have him within arms reach at all times. One time he ran away at the CNE and it took hours to locate the little bugger. After that he was always leashed! My mum says that he was a very trusting child and would have gone off with anyone if they had food- despite her constant warnings about 'stranger dangers.'
Anyway, yes, I think that leashes for kids are great.
Anyway, yes, I think that leashes for kids are great.
I know some people think it's a lazy way of having control over your child, but I truly feel it's being "safe" with your child. Obviously if u see someone yanking and jerking the kid around on a leash... that would be an inappropriate way to use it..lol
You can have a well behaved child suddenly lose control of their excitement and bolt out into traffic or into a crowd. I've seen it happen again and again. Arielle was always a child that would listen when she was young. She knew to hold my hand and never to leave my eye sight. I never thought I had to worry about her taking off from me. But I recall a time at a fair where the excitement of the rides was too much for her and she broke loose of my hand and took off running toward one of the rides leaving only smoke behind her heels..lol She never even looked back and it nearly panicked me to death.
I yelled her name, but she had tunnel vision. I managed to keep her in my sight as I chased after her and when I caught up to her I scolded her and she had no idea why I was so upset with her..lol. If I had known about leashes back then, I think I definately would have used one in situations like that where any child is prone to getting caught up in excitement and taking off.
You can have a well behaved child suddenly lose control of their excitement and bolt out into traffic or into a crowd. I've seen it happen again and again. Arielle was always a child that would listen when she was young. She knew to hold my hand and never to leave my eye sight. I never thought I had to worry about her taking off from me. But I recall a time at a fair where the excitement of the rides was too much for her and she broke loose of my hand and took off running toward one of the rides leaving only smoke behind her heels..lol She never even looked back and it nearly panicked me to death.
I yelled her name, but she had tunnel vision. I managed to keep her in my sight as I chased after her and when I caught up to her I scolded her and she had no idea why I was so upset with her..lol. If I had known about leashes back then, I think I definately would have used one in situations like that where any child is prone to getting caught up in excitement and taking off.
I used to be a much nastier person, hard though that may be to believe. I advocated raising kids in barrels until they were 21, and then shipping them to Alaska to be decanted. (Unless, of course, you lived in Alaska, in which case Florida would do.) Now I think that's a little extreme.*
Really, leashes for little kids, if properly used, are a real safety device. And parents who don't use them correctly probably aren't going to be holding on to Junior anyway, don't you think?
*18, maybe.
Really, leashes for little kids, if properly used, are a real safety device. And parents who don't use them correctly probably aren't going to be holding on to Junior anyway, don't you think?
*18, maybe.
See, now I happen to like kids best when they reach that age when their parents (and everyone else) wants to lock them in the basement and feed 'em with a slingshot Adolescence is my favorite age for kids.
Adolescence is my favorite age for kids.
And they often have a wicked sense of humor. Not much common sense, but funny!
I'm still pro-leashes when it comes to toddlers, though.
LOL well sorry to break to you all...
but I won't be leashing Hannah anytime soon. sorry about your luck
but I won't be leashing Hannah anytime soon. sorry about your luck
I can't imagine you guys tolerating your children running amok around strangers for one second! Not just because it's annoying as all get-out, but more so because it's not safe.
I think, honestly, that's the most important part of tethering a child to you -- it keeps THEM safer.
Difference is, you two (and Puck) have taught Hannah and Bev how to act when they're around other people. Hannah and Bev also have a remarkable amount of sense -- even as little as they are.
I can't imagine you guys tolerating your children running amok around strangers for one second! Not just because it's annoying as all get-out, but more so because it's not safe.
I think, honestly, that's the most important part of tethering a child to you -- it keeps THEM safer.
I can't imagine you guys tolerating your children running amok around strangers for one second! Not just because it's annoying as all get-out, but more so because it's not safe.
I think, honestly, that's the most important part of tethering a child to you -- it keeps THEM safer.
LOLI try so hard NOT to be. I don't hover over her or anything but I secretly panic inside whenever she gets up on the play equipment to go down the slide when there is a little opening in one of the sides to go down a firemans pole. I just picture her toppling out of there even though it hasn't happened or even come close to happening lol I just don't let her see my panic because I don't want to make her afraid
I do like the idea of leashing for safety. but I don't think leashing is going to stop an annoying child from being annoying lol. like someone else said... you are just going to have a child plus a 3 foot trip line in your way now and leashes don't keep them from screaming their heads off lol
GAH I always said I wasn't going to be that parent that was like "GASP, shudder, OH MY GOD" everytime my kid made a move that MIGHT end up badly... but I am LOL
LOL
I'M NOT! WOOT! It bugs her to no end that I let them do dangerous things (or dangerous in her book) She has yelled at me for "letting" them do all sorts of things, LOL, it goes in one ear and out the other.
I could make a huge long list of things my kids do to -put an eye out, break their neck, get maimed, get killed, be put in a coma- in her opinion, ROFL
But here's the rub, My brother broke his arm and later his leg under her care, my sister broke her arm, I've had my arm broken on three separate occasions, and all of these things UNDER HER RULES AND CARE. My kids? Zac broke his nose FALLING OVER HIS DESK AT SCHOOL........otherwise my kids have not injured themselves doing any of these 'dangerous' things my mother goes on about, LOL
Could they? Yes. I know that, but they have to learn to LIVE before they die...........whatever happens, they can look back and know I've let them