Are reins really considered "chavish"?

[Gateau]

Have been looking into buying reins for my 16month old DS and have read that they are often considered "chavish" nowadays.
This - yet another example of - inane snobbery will not sway my opinion either way, but is this the way reins are viewed nowadays?
And if so, WHY???

Marmaduke we had tose from Woolies

Our situation was similar to JimJams. Don't use them atm- comes in spurts really- but keep them handy. Luckily ds3 (5) loks a lot younger but did get some looks last year at a street festival. Because I will obviusly put my son at risk rather than be looked at by miserable old aldies I don't even know PMSL

Reins are great. Use them or not, your chioce, but I will with ds4

here Fio- some information

I just read the thread title as....

"Are veins really considered "chavish"

This thread is funny, the number of people who have posted here claiming that they "do not give a shit what anyone else thinks" but are clearly very irate at the idea that they might be considered chavish or something.

Clearly they do give a shit

Peachy, will look in Woolies.

My situation is also similar, but I thought if I put DS was SN you'd get the usual exemption offer of, 'of course I don't mean for DC with SN' as seen on recent 3 yr olds in pushchair thread.

I need a really sturdy handle to grab DS by when he falls, as have been warned by the physio not to catch him by the arms.

He is 4 and his mobility is improving and I want to use the pushchair less, but am fed up with all the bruises and bumps - as I'm sure is he!

NOTE to those above, I know of 2 NT (as opposed to SN) DC who have had shoulders or elbows dislocated by a parent stopping them falling - it is more common than you think.

You're wrong there, kitty. Where I'm concerned anyway.
I am not bothered in the slightest if people think I'm chavish. IF they do - based on the fact that I'm keeping my chld safe - then they are only to be pitied and seriously need something more to think about.
I'm arguing the reasons I'm in favour of reins themselves, not whether they are considered chavish or not.

So not quite the little detective you thought you were, I'm afraid.

Have never seen a reins thread before - am astonished, didn't realise they were another one of 'those' topics. FWIW, I'm sure as eggs are eggs I'll be using them when the time comes, with care of course, for safety's safe. I don't care how they LOOK. I don't care how dummies LOOK either, because I am really not that insecure. My kid'll get lots of cuddles, lots of culture when it's old enough to appreciate it, and a blimmin' great big dose of common sense.

I used reins for my children they have not been scarred by the experience and its far preferable to being a constantly stressed and "shouty" parent because your child is running free with no appreciation of the dangers.

Who cares if its considered "chavy" if it works for you and your child go for it - no one elses business is it?

i always used reins as 'backup'....my DT's would wear them, I would have strap looped over my wrist AND hold hands, so we did the "road safety, must hold mummy's hand" technique but at the same time, if the little swine angel slipped my grip I could take hold of the reins and reel him in. I think we used them for about 6 months, as by then I was fed up of feeling like I was walking a pair of red setters (one DT would always walk faster and in front, while the other dawdled behind, fast twin would then loop himself round my legs while we waited for slow coach to catch up, would have to untangle before we progressed)....so we then moved to the one twin each technique with DH and I for a few months until I was happy enough with their road sense and we could go out alone....

Hi, I don't use reigns but I do use what we have affectionately called Monkey Pack... and we've just got a new additional called Puppy Pack.
They are like soft toys that are actually a backpack they have a log tails for you to hold on to whilst your child has semi freedom to walk on their own.

I get stopped all the time to ask me where I got it from.
My little one loves them, and seems proud to wear his 'monkey pack'

I bought them on a recent visit to floris however I have seen them on e bay too.

I don't think reigns are chav at all... if other think they are then I'm a chav and proud of it lol xx

I used them with my DS who was active and impulsive from the moment he gained confidence in his walking and running ability. Never considered what other people thought about them tbh - too anxious about losing DS. They were right for me and I'd use them again given the same circumstances. DS is now 5 - still active and impulsive but now with a little more sense.

Floris...?? I mean Florida lol

WEll 'm not chavvish, as my definition seems to involve people with tidy hair and some make up- even white clothes which are such a no no in this house! Wouldn't mind the arse to attempt to qualify though

Marma I know what you mean about get out lol but must admit doing a over this pushchair comment from my sister-

'we don't use the buggy any more, well except when dh and I are both drunk then we both stagger home using it as a frame with DN in it'

Dear reader, DN is 5

I honestly don't think they look great. But if they work they work, and if I felt I needed them I would use them. Not a big deal.

I have a feeling it's also one of those things that's much less chavvy than people think it is.

gateau, you started the thread and you used the word 'chavish' if you weren't bothered you wouldn't have started the thread in the first p[lace let alone used the word.

Protest all you like but your attitude here is not of someone who doesn't care.

'the lady doth protest' and all that jazz

gateau is obviously a right chav

I wouldn't know that only she would

She does get very easily riled though and a person with fewer morals than myself might take cruel advantage of such as situation

awwww hope you're not being patronising ladies.rein it in

Don't you mean 'backpack' it in ?