Comments on: End of June Carnival Roundup

By: mrs darling

mrs darling — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:27:52 +0000

I always put my toddlers on leashes. People turn and stare but hey at least my kid is safe!

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:27:06 +0000

Okay, leash it is! Obviously, my pride over anyone thinking I’m strange can take a back seat to my child’s safety. And good reminder about always setting up a meeting spot in advance in the case of separation.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:22:05 +0000

Use the leash. It gives kids a sense of independence & protects them at the same time. It’s silly to risk your young child panicing because they step away while you’re buying something and then get separated in the crowd.
To give a personal example -(both I and my children learned what to do at a very young age with the aide of a leash). Anyway my almost teen daughter and her friend came with us to a state fair. Sure enough they stopped to browse as I kept moving and we were separated. The other pre-teen ran in a panic back along our route. My daughter’s response was “Why didn’t you stand still & look around?” (We did eventually reconnect because we’d set up a meeting spot in case we were separated, but still.)