Today’s topic of conversation: leash kids. This is nothing new – they’ve been around for years.
That’s right – kids on leashes. Kind of like dogs on leashes, only instead if K-9s, we’re talking humans here. The reason I bring this up is because today as I was watching tv, I Came across the Dr. Phil show. Today it was about a Woman in Georgia who was charged with child cruelty for dragging her son on a leash through a store.
Maybe I’m a little naive here and that there may be a perfectly good explanation for the leash kid phenomenon. Still, most of time when I see a child strapped up in a fluorescent harness, I feel an overwhelming sense of pity. Why can’t mom/dad/nanny just hold onto the kid’s hand, particularly if there is only one kid – not eight – to keep track of? Surely some traditional hand-holding would do the trick, as well as foster that essential, warm and fuzzy caregiver-child bond. I mean, if you were a kid on leash, would you not feel a little confused/degraded that both you and pet Fido were toted around in the same way? Even worse, I've even seen some people push their dogs around in strollers while their child is latched to their wrist by a leash? Is it just meor is something wrong with that picture?!
And leash kids are taken to a whole new level with the advent of Smart Target’s Kiddo Keeper, which is basically the equivalent to those alarms you can buy to locate your keys or TV remote. The Kiddo Keeper Web site, in fact, also markets the product as a way “to monitor valuable properties or pets” – see? Wow. Whatever happened to actually paying attention to your little one? At first I got a little concerned when I read the article that led me to the product, which at one point describes the Kiddo Keeper as akin to an electric dog collar that will shock your kid if he/she wanders too far away. Who in their right mind would want to do that to their child. Why even have children if you think it's that hard to look after them.
I suppose some kids are just that rampantly wild that they must be restrained somehow. I’m hoping Baby Lump doesn’t turn out this way. So help me if I have to resort to treating my kid like an animal, or worse – a set of keys.
agree i use to make fun of kids at Disney world when i was little because they were on leashes hahahahah
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