Disability is no excuse to not parent

[Regina]

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.

LMAO Kevin Hart had me rolling with this video (warning, expletive language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRZkhQDsta0

I vaguely remember when I was little, my Mom used to put a leash around my wrist when we'd go out together, and she did the same for my younger brother too when he was a toddler. Neither of us had major behaviour problems at the time (although my brother's severe ADHD later kicked in after). 

I guess since it happened to me, it's normal to me when I see parents put their little kids on a leash, almost to the degree where I really don't understand the offense some people take to it. I sit in the "never did me any harm" camp in my attitude to it. I guess it was a way to let me walk to build up the strength in my legs, but still with the security that I wouldn't disappear.

I just see it as harmless personally, big fuss about nothing.