Current Events > Leashing a toddler: yes or no?

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Dude, there are children that this happens to all the fucking time.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12498457/Boy-hit-car-Sydney-police-ambulance.html

Wandered on to the road.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw/details-emerge-after-five-year-old-boy-fatally-hit-by-car-in-tragic-accident-at-collaroy-c-11449759

Wandered on to the road.

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/distressing-footage-shows-boy-12-flying-air-hit-car-211825074.html?guccounter=1

This one was a god damn 12 year old.

Children are oblivious shitheads more often than not. I do not want that happening to my one terrorist toddler. She gets the leash; I won't feel bad about and you will never understand until/if you have one.

So does a hand. Or a stroller

Lmao so many people who don't have kids or apparently have never been around kids think just being an attentive parent is enough to keep a toddler from getting into trouble.

"Don't wear a seat belt guys just drive safely and you'll be fine".

Seems like the parent's itt are pro-leash and the people without kids are anti-leash. Since the pro-leash side seems to have far more hands on experience with this topic I'm gonna go ahead and declare them the winners of this argument.

But if all toddlers will do this

Seems like the parent's itt are pro-leash and the people without kids are anti-leash. Since the pro-leash side seems to have far more hands on experience with this topic I'm gonna go ahead and declare them the winners of this argument.

It seems disrespectful to me. Like do the parents not remember being that age?

It seems disrespectful to me. Like do the parents not remember being that age?

It's always funny as hell when I see it, but I think it's pretty sad

But if all toddlers will do this, then why isn't the mortality rate like well north of 50%? Are kids and their parents just lucky? Or is leashing not as necessary as you guys are making it out to be?

my child is two he doesnt need a leash because of proper parenting

Seems like the parent's itt are pro-leash and the people without kids are anti-leash. Since the pro-leash side seems to have far more hands on experience with this topic I'm gonna go ahead and declare them the winners of this argument.

My child is 14 months old right now (I just consistently say 1.5yo since thats easier for non-parents), but mental development between 14 and 24 months is huuugggeee. Id like to think by the time shes 24 months, I wouldnt need a harness; but at 14 months with a child that can already run? Im leaning towards harnessing, especially at our cruise in two weeks.

Seems like the parent's itt are pro-leash and the people without kids are anti-leash. Since the pro-leash side seems to have far more hands on experience with this topic I'm gonna go ahead and declare them the winners of this argument.

Or maybe. And just hear me out for a second here. Some toddlers are exceptionally worse than others and maybe need something more to make sure they don't play IRL Frogger. Maybe just maybe this isn't a solution for every single child.

Or maybe keep the exceptionally bad children completely out of harm's way instead of wrapping them in a bubble because they'll die if you look away? Those parents don't get to have a normal life.

Yes they do, harnesses enable them to have completely normal lives in public.

Or maybe keep the exceptionally bad children

Yes they do, harnesses enable them to have completely normal lives in public.

I was leashed as a young child because I was a rugrats level lunatic. I wonder if I would have been hit by a car or kidnapped if I hadnt have been leashed.

being the leashed human in public is not normal

Ironically, the Rugrats is a cartoon about a group of parents that really should have bought leashes for their kids.

Or maybe keep the exceptionally bad children completely out of harm's way instead of wrapping them in a bubble because they'll die if you look away?

Wouldn't the "wrap them in a bubble" solution be to never leave the house? The harness is the "Keep out of harm's way" answer.

You sorta defeated your own argument.

Yes they do, harnesses enable them to have completely normal lives in public.

Leashing your kid instead of teaching them to not run into traffic is like locking them in their bedroom after school instead of teaching them to not do drugs.

It's lazy as shit and I don't know, feels a bit dehumanizing to me?

It seems disrespectful to me. Like do the parents not remember being that age?

Or maybe keep the exceptionally bad children completely out of harm's way instead of wrapping them in a bubble because they'll die if you look away? Those parents don't get to have a normal life.

Except they're out in public with an unruly baby that they are certain will die tragically if not leashed

EDIT: An argument against a harness is also an argument against strollers, playpens, cribs, and even holding their hand. You're basically saying "Just never ever leave the house ever."

Except they're out in public with an unruly baby that they are certain will die tragically if not leashed

Dude's lost the plot on this one. Good luck.

I do think it is rather nonsensical and rude that parents go on trips and to movies and shit with small children.

Or maybe keep the exceptionally bad children completely out of harm's way instead of wrapping them in a bubble because they'll die if you look away? Those parents don't get to have a normal life.

Your "If all ___ don't ___, it's not a problem" argument is pretty much the worst argument in history, and you should feel bad for making it.

Unless you're a firm believer in things like "If all gun owners don't kill people, guns aren't a problem," or "If all people don't need free health care, nobody does."

If your small child was immunocompromised, you wouldn't wouldn't take them in public everywhere. It's the same concept.

I do think it is rather nonsensical and rude that parents go on trips and to movies and shit with small children.

Sure, but that's a completely different argument.

It's also ridiculous. Man, how dare your baby cry in public. Man, how dare your child be anything but a dead zombie in public. Children will run around sometimes. It doesn't mean they're bad, just adventurous and not aware of the dangers of the world.

You do not accurately remember being a toddler.

It's also ridiculous. Man, how dare your baby cry in public. Man, how dare your child be anything but a dead zombie in public. Children will run around sometimes. It doesn't mean they're bad, just adventurous and not aware of the dangers of the world.

To be fair he's not completely out of line with that post. Don't take your small child to a movie that's not made for them and wreck the entire fucking thing for everybody else in the theater because they have to deal with either ambient baby noise or outright screaming/crying because they either got scared by a loud noise or are just bored and want to go do something else.

I do think it is rather nonsensical and rude that parents go on trips and to movies and s*** with small children.

Except that's not what he said there.

I do think it is rather nonsensical and rude that parents go on trips and to movies and shit with small children.