If this was facebook, I'd like this repeatedly.

It's a bit silly, you've got to admit. Still, people who walk their kids on leashes and talk to them like they're dogs are still less messed up in the head than the people who dress their dogs (or cats) in people clothes and call them their children. >.>

I do the exact same thing with my nephew

"Unleashed", yet the little tyke is leashed. XD

Good one Fox.

this could help meh OwO
being an uncle four times ( four of them i tell you D: )

opinion. If the kid dont stay with me, they ain't going anywhere. 'Nuff said.


Btw, Happy Holidays. :)

y'know, reading your comics makes me think we would get along really well XD

"that's a member of your family!" So is a dog, lady, and you don't hear people complain about having their dog on a leash, in fact it's the opposite.

I haven't seen anyone with their kid on leash yet personally, but I can understand how it can provide some safety in busy areas where you could easily lose track of a child. You can't always hold their hand and even the most caring parent could let their attention slip.

Leashes for kids were big in the late 80s, early 90s. I don't know why they ever stopped using them. Of course that was around the same time they took away gym class because it hurt kid's feelings. Stupid people.

When i came down to the lower 48s to do tourist stuff, I haven't had a good laugh until I saw a toddler on a leash. I just about pee'd myself when i saw it happen. It was good times.

I had to go through that when I was around 4 years old and my family and I went to Disneyland.

I agree completely.

We survived without them. Assk your parents how they managed with you! We also had dangerous toys like "Chemistry sets" "Woodburning kits" "Slingshots" and we went outside to play in the dirty unsterilized playgrounds called "The woods" and, uh, we're good. Leashes on kids? Heh. weiiiiiiiiiird.

I was on a leash as a kid alot of the cublings in my family are just out of controll and absolutely braindead. It wasnt like back then when we had common sense and less crazy people

Spanking! That'll teach 'em. Wander off and scare mom? Spanking! You won't do that again! *Raises hand* I remember being spanked in a department store. I also at age 19 or so remember seeing someone else spank their kid. Someoen scoffed and made a rude comment and I laughed saying, "Doubt they'll forget it, and they're learning." The parent doing the spanking smiled and nodded, the person disgusted huffed and puff puffled themselves and scurried off.

We're not hellions, or hethens, out of control misfits BECAUASE our parents made sure to provide us ample reason as to why we shouldn't. Curbing rather than controlling is an effective method!

But more to the point "Awesomely drawn comic. I love your "Crazy People!" series."

oh i fully agree but sadly i dont have the "right" to spank my cousins when they're left in my care so a leash is the only way i can control the little bastards. Thier parents dont discipline them at ALL. i agree though we should stop treating spanking as abuse, seriously.

*High fives* I mean, it's pretty damned easy to see a spank versus a "I'm hitting yo uto break bones" type swing at a child. heheh. If I ever saw the latter, doubt I'd get off so easily with the assault charges that'd be laid. I will go on record saying I don't like children. But I'll help 'em when I can! Power to those powerful folks who can handle parenthood!

If you start when they're really young, like I did with my sons. You only have to smack them lightly, and just the shock of knowing he's in trouble will prevent him from doing it again. Its kinda weird, I hit him harder when I'm drumming on his belly then I do when I smack his hand for picking up something he shouldn't be. But he just knows, giggle at the one, sit in the corner and sulk at the other.

Anyone who thinks leashes on kids are a bad thing have never had to watch after kids. XD

I preferred to raise my children as opposed to just watching them.

Makes a big difference, like not having the slightest inclination to put them on a leash.

However when one has the misfortune of watching another parents kids and that kid is so poorly raised hell put pennies in a power outlet there's good parenting and then there's sitters who ave to suffer for bad parenting. In those instances your goal is to keep the kid alive until the parents pick him up.

My grandather sanded down a baseball bat into a paddle. NEVER used it once, but the fear of the dang thing meant when he reached for it... we straightened up. He DID use old, soft leather belts, and my dad said he used willow switches when my dad was a kid. Greatest man I have ever had the pleasure and honor of knowing. Would lay his life down for his children in less than a heartbeat. But DANG did he know how to discipline. XD

I know this might make me sound like a cruel being, but I think it's funny when a kid on a leash forgets that there on the leash , and tries to run.

thats the way you fix up shit.
You think the government would think up shit like this...I don't think so.

You should run for president.

LOL... I have NO issues with this idea for 2 good reasons:

1) One of my younger brother's was just like this and would have run head long into traffic (among other things). And, as a kid, he was accident prone!

2) I've seen similar at Disneyland, and frankly for precocious kids, this IS a good thing.

Leashes solve a lot of kid related problems. What would people rather have: A child safely on a leash or a wild kid running amok unsupervised?

I would rather have my child free to explore the world around him with in the limits and boundaries I set, and being supervised. Parenting is hard work, and takes alot of time. You cannot just phone it in. Yes, this goes back to parenting. If you need to leash your child, you are doing it all wrong.

Physically restricting a child just teaches them to mis-behave when the physical restraint is removed.

(Yes I understand that sometimes, for their own protection, physical restraints are needed, but in the cases of autism where restraints are often used, it is not the restraint that calms them, but rather the sensation of being held tight, like a big hug that does it. So I am not immune to special cases, but you will be hard pressed to convince many of with kids that leashes are a good idea.)

i was spanked and at times leashed when i was a kid, and i ended up fine. hell, it probably saved my life at that state park when i was 3.

100% support.

either that or fit them all with those old timey ear trumpets and me with a megaphone >.>

I got yelled at when i was thirteen and i taught them how to play stage coach... having 4 kids around makes the small things fun...

two kid leashes, a old wagon and a big yard... don't for get the Nerf guns

A valid point. If it's necessary, I won't begrudge those who use a leash to keep stupid kids from being suicidal (though some might argue it'd just be "Natural Selection in action" e_e).

Unfortunately, not everyone uses them for the right reasons. Some people may just be too lazy to properly rear their kids.

...why do I feel like I can't say that without you giving me a dirty look? <.<;;

oh you can. Leashes are for poorly raised or even very inquisitive children, there are some that are well behaved surely but in the specific case of my second cousins, its like having a capucean monkey for a child.

Heh. Yeah. It varies. Some have good reasons for doing things, and some people just think they do. The worst devils in us are born of the most noble of intentions.

oh indeed the old adage "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" If my child was well known for being an escape artist and dare i say it a runner, it would be leash time if ONLY when we went out into public and had to walk in placed that had constantly moving cars. in a store they're somewhat contianed but i wouldnt even THINK of going into a place with breakbles with some of my relatives kids.

I don't blame ya. Some kids just can't be trusted until they grow up.

Damn I wish I coulda used these when I was working at a summer camp!

Haha! My brother had one of those. Barely slowed him down! I seem to recall a lot of people getting tied up like imperial walkers...

hmmm my mom put me on a leash when i was little. i find much amusement in this fact.

Kids and pets have more in common than people are willing to admit. :|

A good parent will raise their kids so they don't NEED a leash.
But if you're stuck with someone else's kid who obviously needs one, by all means, use it.

Welp, that's the first time I've seen any negative reaction on child leashes. Course, not unexpected either.

child leashes such a wonderful invention!

I dont mind the kids on leashes in public idea. If the child has a habit of running, then, it should be used. My parents used this on my brothers and I and nothing happened to us. I will most likely use it on my own children when I have some