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Leashing your child




I may not be a parent, but it drives me crazy when parents put leashes on their children. I understand that they want to keep track of their child, but feel like you shouldn’t treat your child like an animal. If you can’t keep track of your children, maybe you shouldn’t have them.

I have enough trouble putting my dog on a leash. I think this is hurtful and embarrassing to a child. I most commonly see children on leashes at malls and amusement parks. People stare at these poor children and give them unneeded attention. How does this affect a child? Do they feel like they’re just being pulled and dragged around? Do they feel like their parents don’t care?

I know parents care, but it seems like the easy way out. It seems selfish to me, like the parent doesn’t want to give their full attention to their child. When I was younger, I had occasional nightmares about getting lost in the mall. I don’t think I ever got lost in real life, but I must have been worrying about it if it was in my dreams. Would a leash have made me more comfortable to be in crowded places? I don’t think so.

I think being on a leash may make a child scared of busy places. It is preparing a child for a traumatic experience. How will a child learn to pay attention to their parent and not run off? Again, I feel like this is taking the easy way out.




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A different way to go about it..
by: Anonymous

I agree that leashing a child looks demeaning but I think that there are also ways to go about it where it looks more as a safety issue than just treating you child like a pet... When my son was about 2 years old, we went to mexico and the whole time I had put a little monkey backpack on him and it had a leash, I took it off if we were all together at a restaurant but a little backpack like that helps when you are in another country with a toddler and on crowded streets and to him it was his monkey backpack (that looks like a stuffed toy and he put things in), he didn't see it as a leash or restraint.

My concern was in a foreign place, you need to be careful of somebody snatching your child even at the slightest glance away or the moment that child slips out of your hand. Same issue with parents that take there kids to a park or the mall, but you need to find a way of making it look like you arent putting something on them that will make them feel less like a person and embarress them.

When my son reached 4, we went on a cruise to the carribeans and no we didn't have the monkey backpack lol.. he understood that he needed to stay by us and things that could happen if he wondered too far. Moms do the best they can to watch after there child but there are times where they won't be able to always be looking so toddlers don't understand why they have to be holding Mommy's hand for so long. So if we have to attach the child to us to prevent losing them, I am for it but just find the proper way to go about it. They are kids, not pets..

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