I always said I was “practicing” my parenting on my dog, prior to having kids.
After all, there are a lot of similarities to training a dog and parenting. You have to be consistent, firm and loving. You have to establish who is in charge.
You have to feed them regularly and yep, there is a lot of poop that has to be dealt with.
But I never thought I’d end up leashing my child.
This week over on Casa de Chaos you can read what happened that made me change my mind about leashing a toddler.
Note: My children crawled into that dog cage voluntarily, I did not lock them there.
I have an adorable picture on my then 2 year old in a 500 gallon (its huge) hex fish tank. It was empty and new don’t worry she REALLY wanted in. Baby in a tank lol, adorable pic.