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Child Leash OK?
I was at a local restaurant with some friends the other day when a mother came in with her toddler son. I was a bit taken aback by the fact that she appeared to have him on a leash and pointed it out to my friends. "At least that one seems to have an animal backpack on it for the child", said one of my friends. Is it OK to "harness" children or is it a problem? Does the backpack lessen the sting?
I was a bit saddened by the child's plight until I thought of my oldest niece and 10 month old nephew. Machina, only 6, has already fallen out of a second story window and suffered a compound fracture in her arm on the playground. "Fearless" does not begin to describe her: she climbed onto the hospital window sill when she woke up, two days later, from her window accident.
Hassan, on the other hand, is now crawling around like a mad man and requires those protective fences to keep him from crawling down a set of steps. Is that fence (now made from transparent plastic to prevent children from feeling like they are in jail) OK to use? And if so, why not use the harness to protect walking children?
I was a bit saddened by the child's plight until I thought of my oldest niece and 10 month old nephew. Machina, only 6, has already fallen out of a second story window and suffered a compound fracture in her arm on the playground. "Fearless" does not begin to describe her: she climbed onto the hospital window sill when she woke up, two days later, from her window accident.
Hassan, on the other hand, is now crawling around like a mad man and requires those protective fences to keep him from crawling down a set of steps. Is that fence (now made from transparent plastic to prevent children from feeling like they are in jail) OK to use? And if so, why not use the harness to protect walking children?
Comments on this journal
Are you in favor of medicating children too? Is ADD real or the creation of the drug companies?
I'd rather have an unhappy child, than a dead child.
Besides, my parents used a similar harness for my brother and he turned out just fine.
There are far worse decisions a parent can make, than to out their child in a harness.
I have a friend who is a kindergarten teacher and she thinks that leashes are signs of parents who have not done enough to control the child's behavior. That may take us into how, and when, one chooses to punish their children, but are there cases where children simply can not be taught, and subsequently trusted, to behave?