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What a horrible thing to do to a child.
shardian:
Of course it is a convenience. When you are walking for long periods either carrying the child, or hunching over told hold hands, that can get pretty darn old. With a HARNESS, the wife and me get a break, and she can keep walking her little Energizer bunny butt off.
I think this arguement is gonna end in a stalemate. You think of kids as dogs, and I don't. I think that sums it up.
Ed_McCarron:
We lost (temporarily) our 4 YO at Disney World a few weeks ago. 2 long hours later, when everyone was done crying and we had thanked park security, he asked to have his 'leash' put on. We hadn't used it in at least a year.
Tell ya what. I won't judge your choices if you don't judge mine.
ChadTower:
Oh it will absolutely end in a stalemate - I don't expect to change anyone's decision. I don't think of children as dogs. Duh. The fact that shardian is making irrational statements like that is only displaying his insecurity on the topic. I think of creatures on leashes as animals - because leashes are for animals. While the parent is looking at something on a shelf, and not eyeballing the toddler, how do you know she hasn't picked a sharp piece of metal off the floor and eaten it?
Ed, Disney is a bit of a different story. How often do you walk kids through a place with 500,000 people crammed into a space designed for 250,000? Now you're talking extremes. I bet if you walked them down the yellow line on your street a leash would be useful too. It's not necessary at the mall (which is where I seem to see most of them). I took my kids to Disney a couple of years ago. No leashes - we held their hands pretty much the whole time. Disney is one place where I wouldn't really begrudge someone that decision though I still wouldn't make it myself. That place is just too easy for a kid to get bumped away from parents and crowd streamed out of their control.
Jim, if the child is disabled, that's even more reason to pay closer attention to them than just putting them on a leash.
shardian:
I had something typed up, but I decided I am done with this.
I like you Chad, but I think your hard-line, black and white view of the subject is wrong. You can't insinuate that people treat their children as dogs and not expect them to get pissed off.
ClubNinja:
Whenever we go somewhere, I just leave my little dude in the car with a window cracked and the radio on.
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