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I don't get why people who are fine with strapping a toddler down in a stroller aren't also okay with leashes. At least the leash gives the kids some leeway to explore and get exercise.
Exactly.
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Originally Posted by Steve McDonald
I have seen a harness and leash on a child around here, only a few times in my life and not for several decades. But I always saw it as a problem with the parents, not with the children. If such constraints were really necessary, you'd see them much more often.
They might be around, but you might not notice them nowadays - there are popular ones that look like backpacks, often in an animal shape with the leash being the tail.
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Originally Posted by Luckystrike1
My mother certainly could have used one on me if they were available in the 50's. I was very ADHD and had a horrid tendency to sneak off.
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Originally Posted by Katarina Witt
Oh, but they were available then! My mom had the two of us 13 months apart, me being the older. I was on a leash and DB was in a stroller, ca 1950.
My mom used them on my twin brother and I in the 60s as well.
I used a wrist one very briefly when my daughter could walk, but was too short for us to hold hands comfortably. She didn't turn out to be much of a runner, so I was lucky in that regard.
I rarely used a leash. But for crowded situations, I would. Like...we're at the zoo. I've got a 4 yr. old, and a 2 yr. old, and the zoo is crowded, and I can't very well wrestle with both at the same time.
Could've used a stroller I guess (for the 2 yr. old) but the boy wants to roam.
When we went places like the ZOO with three little ones all close in age we would dress all 3 in the same bright "team" color so we wouldn't lose them. That and a double tandem stroller was how we did it.
The argument usually boils down to mothers must be either too lazy to teach their children to not wander; or, too attentive to their phone instead of their child. Or some version of that, with the necessary result being children with no self control who grow up thinking they are dogs. Seriously. It's bizarre.
My mother used one back in 1969, when she had a 2 year old and a newborn to keep track of, and most of the time my father was either at work or in night school, so she was on her own with the 2 of them.
My mother used one back in 1969, when she had a 2 year old and a newborn to keep track of, and most of the time my father was either at work or in night school, so she was on her own with the 2 of them.
My mother used one in the 60s as well. Young mother with 2 young children, Tokyo train station.
They might be around, but you might not notice them nowadays - there are popular ones that look like backpacks, often in an animal shape with the leash being the tail.
My grandson had a backpack that looked like a monkey and the tail went around my wrist. He was a runner and would run in parking lots and out into traffic, It was a safety issue. He actually really liked wearing it.
My MIL birthed seven very active boys on a hog farm and that was in the day when the hogs weren't in cages but roamed free behind wooden fences very easy to climb for young boys. Then there was the deep watering tank for the couple of cows and the team of horses. The huge garbage pit in the grove. Also the corn field.
She lived in fear of a young child wandering into the corn field. Doesn't sound so dangerous if you've never been in one but if a child got lost and went in circles he could die from the heat and humidity before a single woman or even a pair of people could find him.
I know that she tied her infants into their cribs with a dishtowel on laundry days and at least one toddler spent a lot of time in a hollow stump near the clothesline in place of a playpen.
I've often laughed and said to DH, "Do you realize that your parents would have been considered abusive in today's culture?"
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