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Our washing machine child lock.
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🤦♀️ That was literally my first comment.
If the child is supervised, you would see them go to the washing machine and reach for the button. Which is the problem you initially raised about the child lock.
“This button isnt child locked”
Supervise your child
“Omg are you telling me to put my child in a cage?!”
.. right.
Again, who said they're not supervised? She was stood right in front of me in the kitchen.
I'm not entirely sure what else you think should happen where you can totally control what they do. Can you say you have 100% supervision of your 2+ year old children and are within arms reach 100% of the time?
.. So you were supervising and watching her, but let her press buttons on the washing machine? And you specifically need extra child safety buttons to stop that? Rather than .. preventing her, since you are supervising and watching her?
Do you think supervising means you have to be stood right by them at all times and ready to grab their hands the moment they move them? And doing this for 12 hours a day, constantly?
If they are known to wander off and press things they aren’t supposed to?
So you do this with your children right? Constantly standing right next to them, arms at the ready to grab them, running around never letting them within 50cm of you?
Almost like you are jumping to extremes again. Ask the question without doing that
Yeah it's an extreme, but it's what you seem to be suggesting because apparently not doing that means they're not supervised. What do you do with your children?
You said the kid is right in front of you and still presses the button.
Yeah? I had stuff in my hands and I was talking to my other kid. I'm not fucking superhuman.
Can you please answer my question about what you do with your children?
I keep an eye on them, and prevent them approaching the washing machine to press buttons.
And they're never ever ever out of arms reach? You're always there 100% of the time from the moment they're up to when they go to sleep ready to grab them, even when they're running around like crazy, ready to grab an arm when they move it? And you're never doing anything else in that time? Like making lunches or tidying or doing chores or tending to another child?
If you were a parent you'd know how ridiculous that is.
“How do I prevent my child pressing a button when they are immediately in front of me”
Sounds like you are either being dishonest on how much you actually watch your kid, or being intentionally obtuse.
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Your words. While they are running around like crazy - in the kitchen without you being there? Or maybe your washing machine is in some other room?
Shut the door to the room you don’t want them to go into.
Your hands are too full because you’re making lunch? Are you implying you solely focus on that, and nothing else, and in that “one second” they have gone to the washing machine and pressed buttons.
Is the only possible way to stop a child getting to the machine is with your hands? Maybe theres another way … like moving your body to stand between them