It has a child lock mode so the settings and start button don’t do anything when the child lock is enabled.
But the power button still works and is next to the start button.
My 2 year old daughter pressed the power button 1 hour into the 1hr 30min cycle and now because everything is wet, starting the cycle again means it’s going to take nearly 4 hours.
Do you think 2 year olds should be kept in a cage or something? Of course they can run about. The buttons on the washing machine aren’t exactly high up, they’re easy to press. As parents you make the house as safe as possible for little kids but it’ll never be 100% fool proof.
Their fingers can’t fit in a socket but OK. Nor can they reach pans from the stove as it’s too high. She’s not strong enough to open the dishwasher door. She’s out of the phase of putting random crap in her mouth, but when she was you just don’t give them things they can put in their mouths unsupervised, you clear them away once they’re finished with, it’s not rocket science.
If you’re a parent, you’d know that you cannot keep an eye on them 100% of the time.
Are there perhaps some alternative options between these two extremes, maybe? Such as … watching your child?
Who said they’re unsupervised? I legitimately don’t understand how you think this works. Do you think an adult should be behind them 100% of the time with their hands ready to grab theirs at a moments notice?
🤦♀️ 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?