When I visited a friend in the states back in 2019, I saw a small Russian family who kept their kid on a leash when we visited the aquarium. Initially I was amused, but once that died off I just found it clever. I, a grown ass-man managed to lose my friends in the crowd a few times, that family never lost their kid.
I’ll never have kids, but if I did, I’d be leashing it in that kind of situation too.
Oh so it’s okay when the KIDS are on a leash, but when I’m wearing one, I’m a “freak” and I’m “being asked to leave the costco”. Damn double standards… I could run into traffic TOO you know!
It wasn’t the leash, it was that all you were wearing was the leash… and also the not being potty trained the "marking* of stuff.
Huh, I don’t remember writing this comment
Well, you’re supposed to be wearing more than just the leash. Rookie mistake
And yeah, honestly I’m pretty sure my wife wishes she could get away with keeping me leashed in public. I get distracted and she worries I’ll walk into traffic
Ok I was of this opinion until I had an autistic son. He’s crafty, fast and enjoys doing whatever he is told not to do. He’s almost run into traffic several times. We caught him, but barely, enough to make me reconsider this idea. I haven’t bought him one, but I understand.
Not funny and fuck you (not OP, the poster of the tweet).
Be civil
That tweet is so old that the kid is a teenager now
Tell me you’ve never been a parent without using the words. One of my kids was a runner and could yank their elbow or shoulder out of place of you tried to hold on to them by their hand. A harness and leash made life bearable for all of us for that time period.
We used a leash on our youngest for a few years in crowds. Never will be sorry for it. It gave him the sense of autonomy while keeping him directed, where holding his hand would quickly lead to problems. This was before the better understanding of ADHD, we were told by older adults (who were always critical of how we parented) that he’d “grow out of it”. It gave us all peace and kept him safe.
A while back I was driving on a gravel road just outside town and came across a lady going for a walk with a kid and a large dog. The kid was on a leash, the dog was running free.
I giggled about that for the rest of the day.
Fuck no, im a pro leash parent.
as an ex-leash autistic, I would have definitely run into traffic or just straight up disappeared had I not been
Haha, I was definitely leashed as a child, and I know why. I was a bolter, my child was also a bolter.
I believe that as long as the best behaved dog is required to be leashed in public, children under 5 should be required to be leashed as well, until the worst behaved toddler is demonstrably better behaved than the best behaved dog.
Leashing a kid doesn’t hurt them, and people who have a problem with it are generally real assholes…
Quite often it’s done because the child is autistic or similar and there are flight or escape issues.
That’s pretty extreme, I think it’s the parent’s responsibility to make sure the kid isn’t a nuisance to others, but whether they require a leash to achieve that is their business (for what it’s worth, I also think a well behaved dog that isn’t causing any troubles shouldn’t require the leash). We tend to either remove ourselves from the situation if the little goblin starts making a fuss, or otherwise use carrying options (on the shoulders, in a back carrier, or, less and less so, in a buggy).
Her answer should have been “yes”.
I’ve watched kids bolt. Some of you need to touch grass and interact with your neighbors.
Or maybe you’re just an asshole.
Seems I’m in a rare group where I think leashing kids is fine but also think that joking about it is fine. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I’m in the same group. My kid is pretty young (just turning into a toddler) but I could see possibly needing to leash his ass in the future. I also would laugh my ass off if someone asked me in public if he was a stray or made some other joke about it.
Can’t take life too seriously but I get people might feel like the joke is insensitive. I suppose I also have a horrible sense of humor and what I find funny might be actually offensive to others at times so … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I only didn’t use a leash because the one time I did the kid spun around and tried to strangle themselves on it. Not from being upset, just everyday normal accidentally-suicidal toddler behavior. Had I been that mom I’d have laughed. Hysterically, with an edge veering into insanity, because that’s what it’s like sometimes, with the infant and toddler tagteaming to keep you up all night and stressed all day. But a good joke is a good joke.
Thankfully my kids survived to adulthood.
