Rough day for a mom at the airport.

oliverstfx · 5 months

"As soon as they start to pull, you just stop walking. Eventually, they learn that pulling does not lead to faster walking, and is actually counterproductive." - Advice I was given while walking dogs.

Curvatureland · 5 months

I've seen a photoshopped version of this picture where someone photoshopped Kratos in place of the mom and the kids are like his chain swords.

AmericanIdiom · 5 months

Rick & Lori need one of these for Carl.

flounder19 · 5 months

A lifetime of fighting games makes me see this as her twirling them around herself to make a defensive perimeter from the horde of ninjas that I assume are attacking from off screen

Edit: apparently hoard != horde

ignore_this_post · 5 months

Worst Kratos cosplay ever.

psychonautilius · 5 months

She is actually wildly swinging both children through the air. It is a delicate and impressive performance art.

phil_s_stein · 5 months

"What did those shitty kids do to that poor woman?"

sandybloomberg · 5 months

I hope she at least brought the poop baggies. I hate it when folks don't clean up after.

bearsbaby · 5 months

hartsfield jackson in atlanta?

kabob23 · 5 months

Seeing eye children aren't trained as well as they used to be.

Snapples · 5 months

Airport restaurant worker here: I see this Shit erryday. Honestly the leashes are better than them running free.

fuckyournationalism · 5 months

LITERAL HELICOPTER PARENT MODE ENGAGE!!

I_DRINK_PERIOD_BLOOD · 5 months

Condoms, worth every penny.

hoss7071 · 5 months

TIL: Everyone thinks they're the best parent(s) known to our entire, observable universe.

dalittle · 5 months

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retrosax · 5 months

After watching legend of korra...

That's some serious kid-bending she's doing.

Zelik · 5 months

To everyone against the use of "leashes" on children, let me give you some perspective, not as a parent, but as a twin.

My brother and I were merciless toward our Mom once we learned to run. We were a duo. In public, we would sprint in opposite directions, or one of us would create a diversion while the other wreaked havoc elsewhere. My Mom parented us well, and tried to get us to behave. I wouldn't consider myself or my twin evil or exceptionally bad children.

But kids in general are mischievousness, and energetic, and like the thrill of running and being chased around. When you've got two of them who are the same or similar age, they play off each other.

Since there were two of us and my Dad wasn't in the picture, for a period of time my Mom either needed a babysitter, or had to strap at least one of us to a stroller or to a harness. When she had a babysitter, then she would literally assign her to one of us before we went outside, so that when we inevitably pulled our shenanigans each adult was responsible for one kid.

FlyBiShooter23 · 5 months

This reminds me of the time I went to a college baseball game and a dad had his son leashed. Enter a wild foul ball. Dad forgets kid is attached to the leash in his hand. Drags kid up the bleachers trying to catch foul ball. Kid was fine afterward. Dad felt like a dick.

Story aside, as someone without my own kids, but with a niece who might as well be, I can't say I would ever leash her but I'm not condemning those who do correctly. A leash isn't a pass allowing you to not watch your kid or teach them to behave in public. It just seems most of the people who do choose to leash, do so in order to do less parenting.

Rayeangel · 5 months

My mother says when I was younger, she would drug me with Benadryil when we were going on an airplane.

Mororeflex · 5 months

For everyone moaning about the lack of child discipline in the modern world, child restraints are not a new invention. Leading strings date back to at least the 17th century. Pretty sure they beat children with axes back then.

galvatron0 · 5 months

As a father, I always want to help parents alone with multiple kids; but then I don't want to be that weirdo guy in the airport.

Rosalee · 5 months

Surely a safety harness saves her back so she doesn't have to keep bending over? Better than losing her kids. Seems a good idea to me, she can tie them up too while she's waiting for her flight instead of them wandering off and getting lost.

CSI__GUY · 5 months

If that kid gets sick at the airport

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It'll be a terminal illness.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!

baronxs · 5 months

Well it certainly wasn't today.

Kaddus · 5 months

http://i.imgur.com/GN0yD.jpg

Anyone else think of this?

BardLover108 · 5 months

someone needs to post this on /r/childfree.

vizzay · 5 months

Someone shoop her holding lightsabers asap please

tabassman · 5 months

Shouldn't that say "regular day for a mom at the airport"?

Torx · 5 months

Next time she'll learn how to ship through fedex.

Scarzig · 5 months

I liked this photo better when it was shopped with a God of War reference.

wkc78 · 5 months

Came to say that I have the same Eddie Bauer monkey harness that she has for my daughter. At least she has them in the vicinity and not running like crazy around the airport.

ApokalypseCow · 5 months

I wonder if I could get a child-leash like that with a 100 lbs reel spring on it, so the child would come flying back to me when I press the retract button... I bet there's a market for that.

SukayMyDickay · 5 months

Fuck I hate these threads

zman73 · 5 months

This is why I dress my kid up in a puppy costume and put him in an animal carrier. Some people say it's abuse, but whatever, I'm on my third drink in the airport bar already.

DevmasterJ · 5 months

Anyone remember that DQ commercial when the guy dips his fry in his blizzard? and then his buddy says "dude, that's not natural" and then he points and replies "and that is"? then there is a kid that gets whiplash on his leash when he chases a butterfly. Hilarious

TL;DR Funny shit went down in a DQ commercial

Beaumont21 · 5 months

Anybody else think it looks like she's spinning poi with her kids?

unkemt · 5 months

Made much worse by you standing and taking pictures

Narissis · 5 months

In this thread: Hundreds of non-parent Redditors admonish the mother for using harnesses.

Edit: Since this comment seems to be getting a lot of attention, I feel I should clarify that I am not a parent, but my parents did use a hand holder (essentially a wrist-leash) for me when I was that age, and knowing myself as well as I do I feel they were fully justified to do so.

rasmus9311 · 5 months

Where's the animated .gif? I wanna see her make the helicopter.

Triassic_Bark · 5 months

Rough day? It looks to me like she is successfully wielding dual babies. I wouldn't fight her.

mickeysf · 5 months

Her big mistake was using the leash instead of a double stroller. You buckle those kids in the stroller and give them a snack. None of the stigma of the leash, and all the control. I have twin toddlers and a 4 year old

loeras · 5 months

Why are these children on leashes? Can parents really not handle their kids anymore?

My father never hit us growing up, but the way he changed his voice to sound like the promise of bad things to come always mad us stop whatever bad behavior we were doing.

Niloc0 · 5 months

Don't shy away from using the choke chain now.

Painkiller3666 · 5 months

White people you have to stop putting your kids on leashes. It makes your race look ridiculous. Thanks for the laughs though.

Balls2theW4ll · 5 months

When i misbehaved my folks just beat my ass, it works

Squatso · 5 months

I couldn't put a leash on a kid. If I have a son and he disappears at the airport never to be seen again because I didn't use a leash, then so be it. I lose a kid but I'll still die content that I never treated him like a domesticated pet. I'll just go home and tell my wife and/or gay lover, "Look, some shit went down and - well - Oscar's gone. Possibly dead. If he's smart he'll find his way back home. But damn it, at least I never resorted to tying him down."

Then we buy another at the store. Hell, we might even get a full refund/store credit. That's certainly nothing to sneeze at.

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Vitor711 · 5 months

Curse you Eros, god of fertility!

notjawn · 5 months

The dirty looks are easier than chasing down a little runner.

[deleted] · 5 months

Kratos' wife and her Babies of Chaos!

MaxATX · 5 months

The kids need to plan this out for maximum cartoon-like hilarity. If they could run in choreographed circles around the mother, perhaps they could spin her so fast as to turn her into a small tornado... or mummy.

jeffbell · 5 months

I watched someone give their kids apple juice just before getting on a flight. They were already twitchy before the sugar rush set in.

Tr0user · 5 months

"Flight has been delayed? Fuck this, children! helicopter positions!"

jesse950 · 5 months

Mom just pulled us in the direction she wanted us to go by our ears... Seemed to work.

[deleted] · 5 months

As a former leash kid, this makes me cringe.

traetrae · 5 months

fucking white people

Constantroaming · 5 months

I cannot for the life of me understand how kids get away with this type of behavior. There is no excuse. Also those leash things are idiotic.

As a parent of 2 boys, who traveled extensively with them when they were at a young age I never ever had kids who were so out of line as to be a major annoyance to others. Did they get fussy, or cranky on a long flight sure they did but they never ran loose like little monsters. Even at 16 and 18 they are still very respectful, intelligent, and well rounded young adults.

traffick · 5 months

Tying kids to a leash doesn't make you a mother.

djsavvysoph · 5 months

Oh god I love this. That child just layin there plankin, not giving one single fuck in the world. Poor mom.

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