While parents today may occasionally joke about crate-training their children, some parents of the recent past took to actually chaining their children up instead of parenting them. No one in the family found the chaining to be cruel, even though the daughter remained chained at all times, including when she went to bed. When Mrs. De Leon had to leave the home, she would chain the boy up outside while the boy’s 80-year-old great-grandmother kept watch from inside the home.