I'm not big on the harness/leash thing for the reason that it gives the kid the idea he can still be wild and doesn't teach him that there are times he has to walk properly holding a parents hand when in a mall or out in public. I tried it with my son for a while at that age...didn't work. So when we went anywhere and he wanted to walk he learned that if he got out of hand he'd get taken home and put to bed. It only took a few times of leaving the mall, or wherever we were that he was to behave and got taken home that he became a better behaved kid.. As far as humiliating the kid I don't know if he'd notice or grasp that concept...hard to say. The other problem iwth the leash thing in a mall etc. is taht it gets in the way of other people etc. unless you keep it really short...and then you may as well hold his hand or teach him to stay beside you.
Every kid is different tho and what one parent finds permissable isn't always in synch with the others around them....
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