When did parents start using leashes on their kids?

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No-one keeps their kids on a leash / on reins 24/7, stop being ridiculous. But, in crowds, or when kids are liable to put themselves in danger, and holding their hand isn't an option, there is nothing wrong with them.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 January 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Incidentally, is emilymv still around? Your kid walking yet? You coping alright?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 January 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it has something to do with the rise of industrialization and wars in general.
Fear. Which is why those of us who are a bit older love reminiscing about our parents shoving us out into the bitter cold to ride bicycles without helmets. And skate on dicey ponds. And gather bloodsuckers and crickets as friends.
And then call us back to home to eat...meatloaf!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 28 January 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't believe this thread is back! Are we all going to reiterate what we said several yards upthread? I'll restrain myself. With a leash, if necessary.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 28 January 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, yeah, I've re-read the thread now, I won't be reiterating anymore.

"stop being ridiculous" eh? ok then ;-)

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 28 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I say keep 'em tied up at all times.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/372087383_2b726fa5b2.jpg

― onimo (onimo), Sunday, 28 January 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow! That's one cute baby.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 28 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw, is that Megan? She got big!

(I just came across this on random, and wanted to mention about the kid I saw on a leash in a necessary situation. Anyone wanting to reiterate themselves, feel free. I stand by everything I said upthread)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 28 January 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG my parents had that exact same rainbow strap kiddy leash for me when I was little. I can't remember them ever using it but I guess they must have. But kids can be so bad, leash all them shits and let god sort 'em out.

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 28 January 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

My parents used reins on me when I was small - until I was about 4, I guess. "Reins" and "leash" do make me think of different things, though - reins are what you attach to a harness, a leash is a single strap that attaches to a collar.

The humiliation aspect: I remember my mum looking after a friend's kid, aged about 5 or 6, and threatening him that if he didn't behave when walking home from the village, she would put him on the reins (which she'd kept from when I was small). She only had to take them with her and show him, for him to immediately start behaving himself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 28 January 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

That is one cute leashed baby, Onimo!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 28 January 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i got real drunk and blacked out at disneyland 2 nights ago. i ditched my friends and no one could find me then i apparently went into space mountain line and started cussing people out and tryed to start fights and got kicked out. leashes can be handy.

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 28 January 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I still feel all wound up seeing people using the word 'leash' because for me its connotations are:
1) dogs
2) S&M
Both are a touch inappropriate when you're talking about children!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I like reins better because they remind me of reindeer and santa.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

No-one keeps their kids on a leash / on reins 24/7, stop being ridiculous.

Sheesh, Ailsa, you always take people seriously,don't you? He said:"(Except, what are the chances? Do they really justify being paranoid 24/7?)" He wasn't talking about leashing the kid all the time. Or maybe I didn't understand correctly...

Anyway, use whatever you want if it means keeping your kid safe. A leash will hardly hurt a kid (emotionally nor physically). People should give it a fucking rest, what with pushing their opinoins on others thinking that's the way it should be. Parenting is a hard job, an accident can quickly happen. If a leash can prevent that, why not use it?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

If not leash or reins how about a monkey harness?

We have one of these! Flickr friends will know how adorable Ava looks in it.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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