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Children should not be put on leashes and treated like animals

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September 30, 2009

Marie Hofer

Animal Cruelty is a Class C felony. I see no difference in dragging an animal on a leash and dragging a child. They’re both wrong and the mother who drug her child around should be charged with a felony.

Now I find it disgusting when a parent has their kid on a leash and the kid is tagging along behind. Kids are not toys. If you can not handle being a parent, there are so many people who would kill to adopt your kid.

Now what has me angry is not just a toddler on a leash, it’s a toddler being pulled behind his mother on his back.

I’m talking about the mothers who drug her four year old little boy across the floor of a Verizon store. She says he would not get up and told her to pull him. She also said it was a game that her son played with her husband at home.

She could not understand why after the video showed up on YouTube everyone now thinks she is a bad mother.

I do not envy her position. Neither do I think she is a bad person. But I believe she forgot to think because, I am sorry, but I cannot see how this is ever acceptable.

Millions of people have walked through that public store with dirty shoes. They could track a variety of germs across the floor that could be harmful to the kid, pulling him around a corner without looking back to see if he was okay just screams apathy to me. I honestly do not understand how anyone could drag their kid across a nasty public floor like that.

If you’re the parent you should be in charge and control. Kids get out of hand sometimes. I babysit all the time so I understand to a point but I could never imagine dragging my kid. Ever.

It’s not a game and even if you play games like that at home as she claims she easily could have prevented the whole blow up. Of course people in public are going to react in a manner that says, “How dare you?” All they know is what they see.

Dr. Phil had her on his show last week and defended her. His basis was you can not judge someone’s parenting skills based on a 13 second clip. He then showed the clip. I would not like to be judged by just 13 seconds of my life but you also have to think when you are in public and realize some things just are not appropriate.

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