Toddlers under restraint!

[scotchmist]

According to my mother I was kept under control whilst out in public in a harness and reins....and no it wasn't last year! Apparently a lot of toddlers were "restrained" this way in the early 70's. I've not seen this practice for years. Can you still buy a harness and reins for small children??

[Trickyvee]

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Don't know if you can still get them now but I had a harness and reins. It was hanging around the house long after I'd outgrown it - used to wrap it around myself when I was playing 'rock climbing' (on the garden wall lol) because of all the clips and buckles.

[Heather74]

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My kids both had reins and thats in the last 10 to 8 years, they came with their high chairs, you could use them to fasten them in the chair then there was the lead you could clip on and off.
Very useful until the child tires then they just sort of hang/dangle off them refusing to move!

[marilynd04]

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My eldest had reins - they were great - you could be cruel and let them think they were free - then suddenly pull them.

[Richard1978]

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My parents had a set of baby reins, which could be used with one of those gingam-paterned vinyl covered Mothercare high chairs that many families had in the late 1970s-early 80s.

[vanhelsing]

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Maybe health and safety nazis've decided these restraints're illegal.

[Heather74]

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No I saw a toddler with reins on this afternoon on the school run, it made me think of this place lol

[Richard1978]

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I did remember around the late 1980s there were wrist straps connected by a string, a sort of streamlined version.

[Trickyvee]

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I did remember around the late 1980s there were wrist straps connected by a string, a sort of streamlined version.

I've seen some nurseries employ a similar thing in recent years. Quite amusing to see a nursery nurse walking along the street with about three toddlers strapped to each arm.