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I worked at a food co-op for a few years in college and got in trouble one time for asking someone if their leashed kid was a licensed service animal.

I think they should be mandatory until a certain level of maturity has been reached.

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by the parents

ruhk wrote:

I worked at a food co-op for a few years in college and got in trouble one time for asking someone if their leashed kid was a licensed service animal.

Support animals are supposed to de-stress you and help you do tasks, kids are pretty much the opposite.

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Stengah wrote:

We have a backpack/leash, but we never used it when just going out to a store. The only two places we used it were airports and zoos and they were extremely useful.

Leashes, back harnesses, wrist cuffs, and the like are very commonly used by people whose kids have disabilities and are at risk of running away. My son went through a phase a few years ago where he would continuously try to run when out in any kind of public setting, including running out into traffic a few times. I found a linked wrist cuff to be very helpful in those situations.

Some of you may disagree, but I don't think of myself as disabled, and my parents loved having a leash on me.

One nice thing about a harness, as opposed to just a tie onto a single body location, is that it's hard to accidentally jerk the kid around. A wrist tether would worry me a little, as I'm so much stronger than a tyke. One thoughtless reach, or if I stumble or something, and they could maybe be hurt. With a harness and a mid-back leash, I would feel much more relaxed... any pressure I exerted would be widely distributed, and would be very unlikely to cause damage. Even if I somehow fell over, about the worst that would happen would be yanking them onto their butt. They wouldn't be happy about this, but there would be no long-term pain.

They just make so much sense at certain ages and/or in certain situations. One moment of recklessness--and *every* child has them--and such horrible things could happen to a kid.

I bet people who complain about leashes on kids are the same...(insert insult of your choice) that complain about participation trophies.

I always thought it was like a little adventure for parent and child, like mountaineers exploring together or something.

Some sort of attachment does not disturb me, as I have personal experience with a young one who seemingly insisted on killing himself at every opportunity. As a life long dog owner, though, I find a leash a little distasteful. Some kind of mountaineering contraption or connected wristbands seems more respectful to me.

This one is a bit dark

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farley3k wrote:

This one is a bit dark

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That is beautiful and perfect and evil and horrible and now I am all depressed.

BadKen wrote:

Some sort of attachment does not disturb me, as I have personal experience with a young one who seemingly insisted on killing himself at every opportunity. As a life long dog owner, though, I find a leash a little distasteful. Some kind of mountaineering contraption or connected wristbands seems more respectful to me.

As mentioned before, a wristband runs the risk yanking their arm too hard or spinning them around. A leash & harness are much safer for the child. As for respect, that come down to how the parent uses it. You don't have to treat them like a dog on a leash. In situations where you need it though, safety always beats respecting your child's autonomy. The harness part of mine is a pink backpack with butterfly wings which my girls loved to wear. They also love pretending to be dogs, so much so that I had to put it somewhere they couldn't get it so that my youngest didn't associate the harness with the game and then start acting like a dog the next time she wore it in public.

Oh dear.

Stengah wrote:

As mentioned before, a wristband runs the risk yanking their arm too hard or spinning them around. A leash & harness are much safer for the child.

Depends on the age of the child. For toddlers and other very young children, a backpack-style harness is much safer. For older children and young adults, you run less of a risk of accidentally dislocating their arm. Also, a backpack harness can actually give them more leverage to pull you over, which is contrary to the whole thing.

True, my experience with them is solely with willful toddlers.

From r/showerthoughts

As you grow older the idea of having sex all night becomes more and more unappealing.

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There Once Was A Poet Named Bates,

His poems weren't always first rate,

His first lines weren't bad, but the problem he had,

Was that he always tried to put too many syllables into the last line.

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I had to saddle up all the way to the Colorado border just for this outraged post!

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I had a good time, but only got with seven of nine.

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230 gigs for one game? Cripes, that's a fourth of my entire SSD.

I mean, that AND you'd need a half-kilometer stack of floppies to install it.

edit: and you better hope they're all good. One bad sector in that pile.....

Which at 20 seconds to read and 10 seconds to swap, would take over 55 days!

God, and can you imagine the shipping?

Little known fact. The Evergreen was carrying three copies when it got stuck.

Malor wrote:

230 gigs for one game? Cripes, that's a fourth of my entire SSD.

Damn, you only need about 150 GB for Flight Simulator

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Little known fact. The Evergreen was carrying three copies when it got stuck.

Thanks, I was eating when I read that.

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