Originally Posted by ngdawg

Excuse me, I take offense here. I can replace a pet. I can NOT replace my kids.
I had my kids on the wrist leashes because I had twins with me all the time. What if one had taken off? A two year old or three year old doesn't listen. Stand in a store and watch some mom with a loose kid. And when my kids were 4, they no longer needed those leashes, they knew they had to hold my hand or my clothes. Why didn't I use a stroller? Because my son by the age of 3 was too big-at two he was dragging his feet off it because he was so long and they'd get restless being in it.
So don't judge. My kids were safe, they had a small degree of independence and I wasn't frantically calling their names in a strange place. If that mother in England back in 1993 had her two year old son attached to her in this manner, he wouldn't have been snatched and killed in the instant it took for her to let go of his hand to pay a vendor. If that mother down the street from me had her child attached to her as she left the laundromat, he wouldn't have bolted and gotten killed under the wheels of a car.
Yea, pets. Tell that to those mothers. You think we grow extra arms after we give birth or something?