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RandalFlagg
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Kids on leashes
#6840772 - 04/27/07 11:13 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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What is your opinion of these things? I just walked by a mother who had her kid restrained by one of these contraptions and it looked so utterly demeaning.
P.S. The kid I saw looked nowhere near as content and happy as the one pictured. In fact, the kid I saw looked downright pissed.
Edited by RandalFlagg (04/27/07 11:25 AM)
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Kickle
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That's my take on it.
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danlennon3
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if they gotta put the kid on a leash, they might as well put him down
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Corporal Kielbasa
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i was just about to google that!
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ZippoZ
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if you have to leash your kid, you probably shouldnt have one in the first place
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Corporal Kielbasa
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Re: Kids on leashes [Re: ZippoZ]
#6840820 - 04/27/07 11:23 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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To bad parents can't beat their children anymore.
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memes
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Re: Kids on leashes [Re: ZippoZ]
#6840831 - 04/27/07 11:25 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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i was on a leash when i was a kid.
it wasn't a full harness like that. more like a spiral phone cord with two velcrow wrist bands on either end.
to be honest - i needed it. super hyper kids are way too active to be controlled by one parent. you gotta make a choice, put the kid on a leash in order to keep track of him, or medicate the kid to make him less hyper.
i'm glad my parents chose the leash. i didn't mind it. it was fun being able to run out the slack and then get pulled back, haha.
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moon_glue
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Re: Kids on leashes [Re: memes]
#6840868 - 04/27/07 11:31 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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my paretns used the velcro wrist coiled phon cord thing when i went to disneyworld, because i was a spaced out little kid and always waudered off. It kept me from getting seperated in a crowded place. That was the only time i ever wore one.
but useing them in a store is sad. i think if you use a leash on your kids regularly, you not letting natural selection do its job.
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AlteredAgain
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my opinion is that i will never bring a kid to the world in a culture which leashes their children.
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blink
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Re: Kids on leashes [Re: memes]
#6840896 - 04/27/07 11:35 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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meams said: i was on a leash when i was a kid.
it wasn't a full harness like that. more like a spiral phone cord with two velcrow wrist bands on either end.
to be honest - i needed it. super hyper kids are way too active to be controlled by one parent. you gotta make a choice, put the kid on a leash in order to keep track of him, or medicate the kid to make him less hyper.
i'm glad my parents chose the leash. i didn't mind it. it was fun being able to run out the slack and then get pulled back, haha.
me too better that than drugging your child into stupor
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goobler
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Quote:
Corporal Kielbasa said: To bad parents can't physically reprimand their children anymore.
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memes
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bottom line - some kids need leashes.
sorry if you can't see that.
it's not the parents fault, its not the kids fault. sometimes you have overly-rediculously-rambunctions kids (like myself) and older, less active parents (like mine) that simply CANNOT keep up with the youngin.
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Re: Kids on leashes [Re: memes]
#6840907 - 04/27/07 11:37 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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meams said:
i'm glad my parents chose the leash. i didn't mind it. it was fun being able to run out the slack and then get pulled back, haha.
Nice. Rule of thumb. Don't judge others' parenting. You're not the best parent either. Remember that it's all in the ability to adapt. I'm not even a parent, and I know that!
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KillrX
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lol natural selection rules let the dumb little kids wander into traffic weed out the "bad seeds" leave us the smart ones
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Kickle
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Re: Kids on leashes [Re: memes]
#6840912 - 04/27/07 11:38 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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The word 'need' implies a lot.
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RandalFlagg
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Re: Kids on leashes [Re: blink]
#6840920 - 04/27/07 11:39 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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You're the last person I would have suspected to be a spaz as a child.
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Re: Kids on leashes [Re: KillrX]
#6840927 - 04/27/07 11:40 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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KillrX said: lol natural selection rules let the dumb little kids wander into traffic weed out the "bad seeds" leave us the smart ones
thats terrible reasoning. everybody knows a kid's behavior doesn't mirror his future prospects.
i was a crazy little kid that would wander into traffic. now i have a scholarship to university and straight A's, about to graduate w/ two degrees and then get a scholarship to graduate school to get my MBA.
the whole natural selection thing is a dumb argument and a lil' offensive (to me), but its the internet so i'm obviously not ACTUALLY offended.
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Corporal Kielbasa
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Re: Kids on leashes [Re: goobler]
#6840930 - 04/27/07 11:40 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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goobler said:
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Corporal Kielbasa said: To bad parents can't physically reprimand their children anymore.
Lol yeah thats what i really meant. Thanks for the edit
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ZippoZ
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actually, i might have prefered being on a leash to having been drugged into a stupor...
those drugs messed me up bad, REAL BAD
i have this condtion called essential tremmor, i shake like hell, i can barely eat soup at this point, and when i get older, the only thing ill be good at is being a human paint mixer
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