(August 14, 2016 at 12:49 am)Aroura Wrote: Judi, I used to feel the same way about those leases. Lady came to pick up her daughter even day after school back in 1st grade, and her little twin boys were on leashes every day. I thought it vile, and my first reaction was to harshly judge the mom.
We used to walk part of the way home together, so I came to understand her situation a bit better. The twin boys were both challenged in some way, again nothing obvios to me so it could have been mental or just la k of disvipline, i dont know, but one day she didn't have them on the leash. One stayed with her pretty well but the other ran right out in the street in front of a school bus! I about had a heart ATTACK! The bus stopped in time, and the boy just stayed in the street til his older sister came and brought him back.
I still have no idea if she was just a bad lazy mom or if her kids were safer on leashes for a good reason. Leashing seems preferable to getting hit by a car or bus though, and now I feel a lot less certain of my position on child leashes.
That's an occurrence I can understand needing one...more than one kid can = difficulty. It's those parents who have one small toddler, that they can easily control with either a stroller (actually using the buckles correctly helps sometimes) or they can carry the kid. Putting them on a leash because you don't feel like being responsible and actually watching your own kid - those are the parents who irk me.
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