MSE Parents Club Part 11

Buttonmoons

Why would a child being on reins mean that they don't learn road safety? Unless you don't teach them it obviously.

It's all well and good saying you just hold their hand, but what if you need to go to the supermarket and you are struggling to carry bags, or go to a fair where it's jam packed and busy.

Plus toddlers are proffesionals at slipping hands, and lurching around when having a paddy.

Keira hasn't been in her reins since she was about 2 1/2 and I used them more for my own paranoid concern than her actually needing them. Half the time she was in them, I had the rein through my hand and was holding her hand too. It's just precaution and if people think I'm walking my child like a dog, then so what. Rather she was walked like a dog than ran into the road.

If you don't need them then great but using reins has NOTHING to do with a child learning road safety quicker or earlier than any other child.

Keira knows to stop at roads, green means go, red means stop etc, she runs ahead on the walk back from nursery with the other kids and she knows fine to stop WAY before the road, and to run beside the wall. I still fret, that she will forget in her rush to be the winner so I end up bawling "STOP"

Sorry, just really don't agree with that!

pinkpig08

elle - can I ask how you became a breastfeeding support worker? What course did you do/where did you do it?

SugarSpun

I think my major worry would be that they're mobile long before you can reason with them.

pinkpig08

Just read your post fully and HAHA! at dietician suggesting stopping BFing!

And yay for him doing so well on everything else - he is one clever baby!

searching_me

bm its not that they its i know and seen alot of mother not teaching children as they know the reins will stop them ...

jillie you gotta admit some reins look the same as the ones used on dogs esp staffs ...

elle glad all went well x

jillie1974

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Why would a child being on reins mean that they don't learn road safety? Unless you don't teach them it obviously.

It's all well and good saying you just hold their hand, but what if you need to go to the supermarket and you are struggling to carry bags, or go to a fair where it's jam packed and busy.

Plus toddlers are proffesionals at slipping hands, and lurching around when having a paddy.

Keira hasn't been in her reins since she was about 2 1/2 and I used them more for my own paranoid concern than her actually needing them. Half the time she was in them, I had the rein through my hand and was holding her hand too. It's just precaution and if people think I'm walking my child like a dog, then so what. Rather she was walked like a dog than ran into the road.

If you don't need them then great but using reins has NOTHING to do with a child learning road safety quicker or earlier than any other child.

Keira knows to stop at roads, green means go, red means stop etc, she runs ahead on the walk back from nursery with the other kids and she knows fine to stop WAY before the road, and to run beside the wall. I still fret, that she will forget in her rush to be the winner so I end up bawling "STOP"

Sorry, just really don't agree with that!

totally agree. i see loads of parents with the child scremaing as the mum/dad has their arm in a vice because they wont stand still at the pedestrian crossing, if the child wriggles free they are straight in the road.

SugarSpun wrote: »

I think my major worry would be that they're mobile long before you can reason with them.

agree

searching_me wrote: »

bm its not that they its i know and seen alot of mother not teaching children as they know the reins will stop them ...

jillie you gotta admit some reins look the same as the ones used on dogs esp staffs ...

elle glad all went well x

the reins might look the same but i dont think of a child as a dog when i see reins. i see a responsible parent looking after their child.

sorry. (not suggesting anyone on here is irresponsible by not using reins as we all have our own ideas on what is best for our child)

x

feelinggood_2

Hehe, is reins the new hot topic we are all going to fall out over?

jillie1974

feelinggood wrote: »

Hehe, is reins the new hot topic we are all going to fall out over?

nah. just healthy debate

jennynoo

Is it just me who thinks seeing a toddler in reigns is cute? I got mine the other day off ebay (£3 total) just so we can fit E in the pram better but have already tried them on her to see how she looks! I think E will be walking before she can reach my hand without me having to bend down, so reigns will save my back.

jillie1974

jennynoo wrote: »

Is it just me who thinks seeing a toddler in reigns is cute? I got mine the other day off ebay (£3 total) just so we can fit E in the pram better but have already tried them on her to see how she looks! I think E will be walking before she can reach my hand without me having to bend down, so reigns will save my back.

i do, just didnt want to say