I’ve seen plenty of small kids on wrist leashes since the 80’s.
Also, there’s a vast difference between a kid and even a dog, when it comes to autonomy - your goal is to slowly develop a kid’s autonomy so they can be independent. Some kids/circumstances can be very challenging to negotiate safely.
With dogs, you have to do the reverse - condition them so they’ll want to defer their autonomy to you. And with some dogs, even with the best, most capable trainers in the world they’ll still dart after that rabbit or whatever catches their eye.
Says who?
I’ve seen plenty of small kids on wrist leashes since the 80’s.
Also, there’s a vast difference between a kid and even a dog, when it comes to autonomy - your goal is to slowly develop a kid’s autonomy so they can be independent. Some kids/circumstances can be very challenging to negotiate safely.
With dogs, you have to do the reverse - condition them so they’ll want to defer their autonomy to you. And with some dogs, even with the best, most capable trainers in the world they’ll still dart after that rabbit or whatever catches their eye.