Excuse me what the fuck? A human being on a leash like a dog?
What is this, how to destroy a child’s dignity with one weird trick?
My parents sucked but I’m grateful they at least didn’t leash me like a dog. They degraded me enough already.
So many people on this thread are defending leashes, yet they don’t exist anywhere but in the US, so…
I have never ever seen a kid leash in Denmark or any country I have visited, and yet kids here don’t run around in stores acting out or disappearing.
I don’t know, they seem dehumanizing and humiliating to me. If other countries can raise kids (incl kids on the spectrum) without them why can’t the US?
I saw this disturbingly often when I worked retail, like maybe once a month? too often. Anyway, I’m pretty sure it’s a surefire way to make the adult the kid grows up into a puppyboy/girl/enby. I just don’t see how it could ever not. I think this started with gen z actually, I saw a kid or two when I was younger with leashes on. Would love to see if this has been studied at all.
They’ve been around since at least the 80s. Probably earlier.
Probably went away and made a comeback. I came out in '92 and didn’t see a leash kid until around 2010. Then suddenly, leash kids everywhere.
Nope. Your observations are simply not representative of the reality.
Oh, okay
I’ve always felt weird about parents who have those backpack leashes for their kids, but now that I’ve been living next to my in-laws for a year, who have 8 children, I understand some of them.
I refuse to take some their kids anywhere unless one of them is with my wife and I.
One would absolutely go sprinting full speed away and hide from us just because he thinks it’s hilarious.
Two would wander off because they saw something shiny and their brains are like an etch-a-sketches where every time a new thought enters, the old one has to get wiped away.
One would do the exact opposite of anything we say just because he figures he can.
And three others would absolutely just wander off, not because they want to but just because kids aren’t always the best at spatial awareness and simply get too far away. And would be terrified if they noticed their adults were nowhere in sight.
You lost a kid. That’s only 7
My mom would just walk away as if she didn’t even have a kid with her. The panic and fear of losing my mom and having to find her again in a huge ass grocery store is what eventually kept me close from some point on
Nowadays that mom would get arrested for neglect or some bullshit.
Hahahaha funny thing about that, that’s just a glimpse into who my mom is, and coincidentally I haven’t talked to her in 6 years (I’m in my early 30s now)
I watched as our little, barely walking toddler walked away from us in a busy department store. I followed behind, hiding behind racks, to see if he would get scared and turn around. Nope. Did not turn once. Just waddled away. I had to race and grab him from behind once he stepped onto the escalator.
It was then that I really understood the need for those leashes. Had a talk with the wife and we decided against it, but it was close.
