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My friend Mershant told us at work today: “I saw something today that only white people do. Kids on leashes. Have you seen that? That’s just crazy, pulling your kid along like they’re a dog. My mother would never resort to leashing us as children, because she could give us that look…or a whoopin. We wouldn’t wander because we knew. Black mamas don’t mess around.”

I agree. For some reason, I can’t buy into the philosophy that if your kids are out of control, you leash them. What kind of parenting is that?

“Here’s an idea, you know how we put Fido on a leash so he doesn’t run into traffic? Yeah, why don’t we try doing that with little Hayden or McKenzie (these kids always have named like this – or Taylor, or Sydney).

Now as if harnessing your child and pulling him or her back to you with a leash isn’t bad enough, in an attempt to make this look less like you’ve dressed your poorly behaved toddler in bondage gear they’ve gone and made these little animal shaped backpacks. In my travels I have seen quite a few kids wearing monkeys with excessively long tails, at the end of these long tails are bad mothers being pulled through crowded terminals by screaming toddlers with snot dripping down their faces.

People, I beg of you, don’t harness your child. Instead, how about you just teach the little shit how to behave. It would benefit the greater good if you could just be a decent parent and save the leashes for your pets.”