My MIL just bought my baby a set of reigns and I am horrified. What to do?

[BumblBeee]

I think they are horrid?!

[SaltireOShanter]

Don't use them then. I personally used them a lot, but if you don't, well put them in a cupboard

[DarrellRivers]

I love reins
Very useful in right situation
Do what you want , hopefully MIL was only being helpful and they were much more fashionable when she was a mum

[Gitch]

really? mine were great, i loved having them.

[nappyaddict]

mine are helping ds learn to walk.

[Gitch]

and actually, i loved having them on when i was a kid, i remember it distinctly.

[Oliveoil]

what is wrong with reins?

[BumblBeee]

I feel like it is turning Bubba into a dog?

[nailpolish]

take them to the charity shop

[imaginewittynamehere]

If you don't like them don't use them. I personally find them very useful when dd wants to walk but won't hold hands - much better than leaving her in the pushchair which I assume is the alternative...

[Gitch]

no, that's a lead you're thinking of...

[MeMySonAndI]

Oh the sort of thing that inspires the "I would never do that" thoughts until you find your toddler has legged it in a bussy supermarket.

[BumblBeee]

It looks creepy to me. I worry she will be scarred for life!

[MamaG]

HORRIFIED?

oh fgs, get over yourself! I don't like the wrist strap ones, but if you have an active toddler, reins can be a godsend if they refuse to hold hands

[fairylights]

how old is your LO? i was horrified at idea of reins but now that my LO is starting to walk i think i will be getting him some - not least because we live near a main road where i have seen a small child being knocked down because he was running ahead of his mum.. just tell her you are using them even if you are not, unless you see her often of course!
ps the little boy i saw bring knocked down was OK in the end.

[Oliveoil]

I had some for dd2 which we used once or twice

now they use them as dressing up stuff when one of them is a horse

[BumblBeee]

Ok maybe it is me who is mad. You are all resoundingly in favour.

[nailpolish]

im not

take them to the chairty shop

[Gitch]

actually dd is very good about holding hands but i liked to have them as a saftey precaution. it depends how busy the streets are round your house, i suppose. i much preferred to have dd walking/being carried to do local shopping than stuck in her buggy.

[Teuch]

reins? fab...keep the upright without hindering too much, and letting them feel independent, let you secure them into highchairs/trolleys where the straps are buggered...

Loved mine!

If you don't, then just carry them around in the change-bag for a while and don't use them.

But they ain't 'horrid'

[Gitch]

naily doesn't like them, bumble, it's not just you. (it's you and weirdy naily).

[Teuch]

by that I mean, people are unlikely to think you are cruel for usng them!! Didn't mean it to sound so abrubt

[MeMySonAndI]

I found them very useful to teach DS to stay near me. He hardly wore them. I used to say, if you go away again I will use the reigns for 2/3 minutes. A couple of times did the trick all right

[BumblBeee]

"ps the little boy i saw bring knocked down was OK in the end."

Oh thank goodness.

I guess she is just trying to be helpful.

I haven't seen anyone use them since the 1960's. I didn't even think they made them still.

Maybe I don't get out enough!

[Lubyloo]

I would rather use reins than have DD run into a busy road. If I didn't have reins she would be strapped in her pushchair all the time. They are great and DD loves them.

[DiamandaGalas]

No, they don;t get scared for life.

My little bro used to run and find interesting things to follow away from us EVERYTIME we went out.

He got lost in every holiday we went, every outing,
My mum was sick of calling the police to put a search for him. One day she discovered reigns she never looked back.

Some kids are perhaps not as good as the ones of the mums that are horrified. Considered yourselfs lucky your children are so well behaved!