Do you leash your kid?

I had reins actually, didn't find it humiliating I thought it was pretty cool to be like the dog actually!

When you have two hands to hold onto at the same time, you damn well bet I leashed them (twins).

I have two children.. and two hands. I've never leashed my children and we have spent plenty of times in airports, zoos and even foreign countries.

Rather than leashing them I taught them when they needed to stay close, and disciplined them when they didn't.

Why do you care how other people raise their kids?

totally this. Well done you for being SOOOO amazing, we all bow down. Or we don't, we just think you're a self satisfied bore.

The bottom line is, mind your own business. In my very humble opinion.

And whoever had 2 children and 2 hands clearly never needed to push a supermarket trolley, carry luggage or anything like that.

I didn't have to use a backpack leash on my kid because he just so happened to not be a runner but I absolutely would have if he was. I don't see a big issue with it, most kids on leashes are 2ish I don't think they'll be too scarred for life from the experience lol. My cousin, however, is scarred for life after being hit by a car and having 7 surgeries before the age of 3.

I love when people leash their kids, especially at amusement parks....I immediately snap a pic and mock them on FB.

I have 2 young ones, never used a leash, everyone still alive. :flowerforyou:

I had 3 kids, all still alive and I didn't use leashes either but I don't award myself a medal for that or have any objections to those who do use them.
Any more than any other item or technique which I happened not to use but which worked for others.


I hope your first sentence isn't serious - that really would be quite pathetic.

I did use a Monkey strap as they are correctly named NOT a leash. You walk a dog with a leash. You keep your child safe from predators when you use a monkey strap on your child.
But then in order to understand it from a safety side, you would have to understand what its like to have a child that A) has been kidnapped, A child that bolts out onto a road (kids have NO real road sense until they're 10) but then I've seen adults with none either. C) If you have a child in a pram, an older child that loves to escape from mum or dad.

Please stop thinking of it as parents being lazy.
And honestly stop calling it a leash because they are called Monkey straps for children that are at times little rascals.

I don't really care who does and who doesn't put their child in a monkey strap, in all honesty to me that's one more child that cannot be grabbed, never to be seen again, or found alive to live with any trauma they may have suffered.
Please look at it from both sides as its never a one way thing.
I say they are great for safety reasons.

I seen the leashes on children and I think its disgusting my children were never on them

I seen the leashes on children and I think its disgusting my children were never on them

Wow, you must be perfect and so must your children. Would you like a medal?

And to the previous poster - if I found someone had taken photos of my kids and put them on Facebook without my permission I would be prosecuting!

I bet you never walk anywhere so your kids running off is not an issue!

Smh

Do you think an 18 month old running off is a lack of discipline, or a child being curious? Get a grip.

Sorry, I forgot, you're probably American and keep a child in a stroller until they're 5! That's perfectly acceptable of course!

Really necessary to bad mouth Americans?

Leashing a child is so disgusting and repulsive IMO...
I couldn't and wouldn't ever do that to a child.

My stomach turns when I see leashed kids as if they were dogs or something.
Absolutely outrageous.

When raised well, you don't need to worry about them walking away.
That's a lack of discipline on one end and lack of attention on the other end.

I take it you don't have children? Let's hope you never do. Discipline a 18 moth old & see where that gets you.

It's got nothing to do with that at all.

The list of 100 things to do to raise the perfect child, in the perfect world must have been in the "Owner's Manual" some of you received when you left the hospital with your newborns. I guess our hospital was out of them when our boys were born because we never received one. Yeah, the parent beating their child for slipping out of their free hand, the other is holding their cell phone to their ear, is a much better, concerned parent, than the one that goes through the trouble of buying, figuring how to put on, and maneuvers busy places holding onto the strap.

My kids didn't need corrective shoes, I did, and you can damn well better believe if they needed them, they would have worn them! Because it is so much better to watch kids and later adults point at them instead of putting something on them that they will never remember.

If by the time your child is walking, and you feel the need to leash them....somethings up! Not necessarily with the child....

What rubbish.

Some children are different to others and some parents find different things work for them.

That's all there is to it.

Cant believe the big deal some posters are making about what other parents find works for them.

I was leashed.

I remember it looked like a giant plastic springy coil key ring that was attached to 2 wrist bands. Then one of the bands was attached to me.

There was also a waist attachment, which they also put on me sometimes.

It was humiliating.

OMG, Im so sorry you had to experience that. I never knew it existed. That's very disturbing. I'm surprised its legal in the USA, if spanking kids is illegal.

If by the time your child is walking, and you feel the need to leash them....somethings up! Not necessarily with the child....

My daughter walked at 9.5 months old! Sure, at that age she understood all about road safety!

I guess that's why there are parents, right? To look after the kids and teaching them how to behave.

I must admit reading this thread and all those opinions pro leashing is shocking to me. I was raised always knowing that I'm being respected and treated as a human being, not as a dog. That leashing must cause serious emotional damage to the kids