Originally Posted by analog

Congratulations, you have an opinion. Fortunately, so do I... and when two kids could have wandered off into oblivion, only to have the third nearly make off as well, my opinion is that these parents are reckless as all get-out, and I wonder how they function as parents at home. It's that type of carelessness and "letting them get out of sight" that causes abductions and pool drownings- which happens way too often around here.

So, believe it to be excessive or not- I'd rather go with "safe" than "sorry"- literally.