This thread kind of leaped out at me. My mom had a leash for me when I was a child. I'm supprised that she didn't have a muzzle, a choke chain, and a taser. It hooked to a little harness I wore. I don't really think that it affected me overly much in any mental sense. It probably kept me alive, truth be told.
It just looks like common sense to me, especially considering what passes for civilization today. Equating it with treating children like an animal is just reaching for yet another PC thing to whine about.
I still tease my mom about it, and accuse her of just hooking my leash to the clothes line out back and leaving me out there to run up and down the line. She swears that never happened.
