[John Jamieson]

Parents just don't expect a grab and run. I really like the little leashes people are using in the malls. We didn't even think of that when I had little ones.

[Eva]

Are you kidding? Those leashes have been around forever. When I was a kid they were leather, just like a dog leash, with a harness that fitted over the kids upper body. Then when my kids were just old enough not to need them, they came out with the spiral leashes that velcroed to the wrists, completely hands free.

[JudyB1938]

They had those leashes for kids when my own kids were little. They always horrified me, treated children like dogs. I thought the parents were too lazy to watch their kids. I sure wouldn't think that now.

[the Deejay]

Really? I remember those kid leashes from the 1940's. Well, I was a little kid back then, but I've seen them
in some of the old movie classics. (People in a crowd.)

Recently, a child was abducted from a Walmart & the
mother had the kid on one of those leashes.

Walmarts are notorious for child abductions.

I had three kids, whenever I took them anywhere, they were
always within my reach. At a park, it was the same. And they knew not to go into a bathroom without me. And I have
all boys. (Grown men now.)

[Spunky]

I really like the little leashes people are using in the malls. We didn't even think of that when I had little ones.

I sure did. My daughter was born in 1959 and I had one of those leashes for her when she was 1-2 years old. Not because I was concerned about an abdution, but because she would take off in an instant. She had a way of slipping her little hand out of ours and off she went.