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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING Raising Children Thread

bureaucrat#3 said:
My wife was lamenting that our 21 year old has started oversharing. She's providing more details than my wife feels comfortable with and things she could not imagine telling her mother. I always have to remind her this is a good although sometimes uncomfortable thing.
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I can't believe the things my kids share with me, or ask me. They wouldn't want to hear the same things from me! I'm satisfied knowing that the way I responded to my kids when they were young carried over as trust once they became adults.
 
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Maister said:
A 'walking harness'? In 1961? I honestly thought leashes for tots was a 1990's helicopter parent innovation. Apparently, what's old becomes new again.
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My dad grew up in the 1930s and 1940s. He told me that his mother put leashes on the when they went to department stores.
 
Maister said:
A 'walking harness'? In 1961? I honestly thought leashes for tots was a 1990's helicopter parent innovation. Apparently, what's old becomes new again.
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We had a kid leash. It was a cute monkey backpack with a strap. That thing was invaluable. The kid doesn't seem to harmed by the experience.
 
I see the kid harness works to age 10. I'm imagining one for my giant 10 year old...

Last year I saw something about booster seats being required for children up to 16 years old in California...? Was that true or just click bait seen as "look at what California is doing now..." sort of stuff.
 
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