Woman drags kid through store.

[Dogwood_Poet 16]

Am I the only one who thinks this is totally staged? I don't think everyone would just stand around if it happened in real life. Plus the kid isn't screaming and flailing around.

[Welshcookie 17]

I always used a walking rein when my kids were toddlers when out shopping....I didn't feel embarrassed about it and I still don't looking back on it, I felt safer knowing they were 'attached' to me in busy stores and streets, it only takes a fleeting moment of distraction for a kiddie to run out onto a road or get lost in a store...If any stranger thought I had bad parenting skills for using one then so be it, my reason was valid to me so who cares?

[_Simpson_ 250]

9 out of 10 times it isnt the disciplined child on these leashes its the spoiled brat, thats been my experience. I have never known anybody that uses these leashes and dont know anybody that has had there child hit by a car, kidnapped ect.

[Bunkerwuggy 0]

She has been arrested for this...

Woman arrested on child cruelty charge

[sara..... 371]

She has been arrested for this...

Woman arrested on child cruelty charge

for dragging the child and injuring the child she should have been charged my question is why didnt someone do something when it happened.

sara

[Welshcookie 17]

9 out of 10 times it isnt the disciplined child on these leashes its the spoiled brat, thats been my experience. I have never known anybody that uses these leashes and dont know anybody that has had there child hit by a car, kidnapped ect.

Show me a child that has never behaved like a spoiled brat....and out shopping is usually the place you'll see it.....a bored cantankerous child doesn't ALWAYS mean an undisciplined child. Shopping with the most disciplined child can still turn into a nightmare, also when you have your own children you are besieged by irrational fears of dangerous situations they may get into.

[Sandrila 1]

I recall seeing a picture with a leash on me, a pink one and it fits around your torso like a harness you'd wear bungee jumping or something

if you happen to be a parent with an unruly child my prayers are with you

however a tired or over stimulated child could be just as difficult even if they are usually well behaved.

Edited August 13, 2009 by Sandrila

[Danno 1,228]

Arrested for this?

I hope Obama will determine this to be "stupidly" too.. because it just may be.

Going by the only thing we can see on the vid, we have a little kid being dragged across a carpet.

There could be more to the story but I can imagine doing this for the kids entertainment at home.

Where is the physical harm?

I'd like to see the red mark on his neck......if he were my kid and acting-up, he'd have a red mark on his Azz.

[Sandrila 1]

Well mostly because I think that its unnecessary and just points out that you have a kid you cant control. I get tired of seeing these parents that have there unruly kids on a leash. What a leash prevents for most of these parents is to keep them from running around and grabbing things off shelves ect. That is just not the way to behave in a public place and having a child that does this speaks volumes about there parenting.

My sisters kids are this way and it drives me crazy, I know where the problem begins, she spoils them and never wants to tell them no. Its not because there kids just being kids, its because she spoils them. I often find that these are the type of kids you see on a leash.

Sorry but give me an example of a child so well behaved at age, say b/w 2-7 years old who does what you tell them to do when you tell them to do it? I don't buy blaming the parents all the time for unruliness and defiance. It simply isn't the case in most situations.

Even still you say you don't like unruly kids but then when the parents try to take control the only way they can or know how, which may be a spanking, then the parent is even worse for discipling their own child the way they see fit.

Oh I hear my mother now...."you wait till you have kids someday"

Edited August 13, 2009 by Sandrila

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I actually think the walking reins are a fantastic idea. First saw them decades ago in Disneyland and thought it was quite smart, to have the kid attached to you somehow. I do not believe in corporal punishment, so in her case, I would have just grabbed little brat up in my arms and gtfo out of the store... dragging him was as fvcked up as spanking him. The, 3 hours in a dark closet. Kidding.

[HAL 9000 96]

I've seen them used. Kind of weird in a place where you could control your child's wandering... but not that bad of an idea somewhere very public where kids have disappeared before.

[_Simpson_ 250]

Sorry but give me an example of a child so well behaved at age, say b/w 2-7 years old who does what you tell them to do when you tell them to do it? I don't buy blaming the parents all the time for unruliness and defiance. It simply isn't the case in most situations.

Even still you say you don't like unruly kids but then when the parents try to take control the only way they can or know how, which may be a spanking, then the parent is even worse for discipling their own child the way they see fit. huh.gif

Oh I hear my mother now...."you wait till you have kids someday"

What? there is alot of kids out there that do what you tell them to do. I know countless people that have never had to resort to leashes to keep there kids safe

I support spanking, always have. Dragging a kid through a store on a leash I dont and never will. I didnt want to pull this part of my life out but people keep acting like I dont know what raising a kid is like, I do. My first wife had a child that I helped raise and I raised my brother and sister.

Edited August 13, 2009 by looking_up

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I've seen them used. Kind of weird in a place where you could control your child's wandering... but not that bad of an idea somewhere very public where kids have disappeared before.

True. Kids can and do wander once they are mobile. So the safer, the better me thinks. #######, I wish I could put a leash on Bren when we go to museums damnit, I keep "loosing" him

[Peikko 1,575]

What can I say? Spanking doesn't achieve anything. I might not be a 'leash' user, but I can at least understand where those using them are coming from - you can't 'reason' with a young child about danger.

I do remember getting lost in town when I was a kid, quite traumatic for me to remember all these years later. Luckily I was found and restored to my mother quite quickly but it wasn't a case of my behaving badly or her being negligent, it was simply a product of the circumstance of being in the hussle and bussle of a busy environment.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

What can I say? Spanking doesn't achieve anything. I might not be a 'leash' user, but I can at least understand where those using them are coming from - you can't 'reason' with a young child about danger.

I do remember getting lost in town when I was a kid, quite traumatic for me to remember all these years later. Luckily I was found and restored to my mother quite quickly but it wasn't a case of my behaving badly or her being negligent, it was simply a product of the circumstance of being in the hussle and bussle of a busy environment.

So... once you were lost, and now you are found?????? How touching

I don't believe in corporal punishment, either.