[littlecranky67]

I once in a supermarket saw a probably 2-year old sitting in a stroller, holding a smartphone watching Youtube. When the ads came up, the little fella confidently pressed the "skip ad" button. I was perplexed and stunned, how can a child that can't even walk yet have the practice to know how to skip the ads. I don't even want to know the screentime that kid has.

[doubled112]

Maybe this is evidence that the urge to skip ads is innate.

[ForHackernews]

Parrot skips ads https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MLoJ_t36Png

[mothballed]

It is the first thing most any kid learns on a tablet.

[giwook]

Anything to keep the dopamine flowing.

[schnitzelstoat]

A 2-year old should be able to walk unless they are pretty severely developmentally delayed.

[jbjbjbjb]

sitting in a stroller doesn’t mean the kid can’t walk

[schnitzelstoat]

I agree, but OP stated:

> a child that can't even walk yet

[tsoukase]

Cmon. Let's not always be so pendantic. If we may, a 2yo doesn't fully walk, like eg a 5yo. And a 5yo doesn't walk like a 12yo.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

My 5yo can kick an adult hard enough to hurt them thanks to kickboxing training, you bet he can walk like a 12yo lol

[x187463]

My dude, go grocery shopping with a 2-year-old and see if you want them walking around. They'll be peeling a sticker off the floor for two minutes, then grabbing everything off the shelf. It's perfectly normal to cart the kid around so you can actually make progress through the aisles. They can reasonably follow you around between 3-4.

[frizlab]

OP said “how can a child that can't even walk yet have the practice to know how to skip the ads.” A two year old should definitely know how to walk. Obviously you will not have it strutting around in a store, but it should know how to walk.

Also I don’t let my two year old near screens on her own, and generally do not allow screen time at all, but she absorbs things at a pace which is incredible. If I were to “skip ads” in front of her, I’d only have to do it around twice for her to be able to do it on her own…

[fsniper]

That depends on the kid and time. Mine carries the small cart and fills what we buy regularly. And other times we need to contrain him as expected.

[JoBrad]

I think the point was fine motor control at 2.

[lotsofpulp]

My dude, that is not what

>how can a child that can't even walk yet

means.

Also, my 2 year olds walked around the store all the time, as well as sat in the cart when I didn't have time to supervise. It is good exercise, and helps them practice following instructions.

[mothballed]

They just leave them outside in the stroller in someplace like Sweden. It's hilarious how on HN the nordic countries are idolized and leaving strollers outside while the kid stares at the street man smoking fentanyl out of a piece of aluminum foil indicates you are a glorious liberated member of intelligentsia but by god if you put a tablet on to get a moment of peace while you take a shower then you are a hideous sub-human piece of garbage.

[watwut]

Babies. They leave there babies. They do not leave there two years old already fully capable to toddle away and still dumb enough to walk into anything.

Also, not every city has the same massive drug addiction homelessness problem as yours.

[schnitzelstoat]

Sweden doesn't have as big a problem with drug addicts, homeless people etc. on the streets. Although it's changed a lot in recent years.

[close04]

In most countries it's illegal to leave any child unattended in a way that puts them at risk which is a vague definition. But if something were to happen to the child while unsupervised any vagueness collapses into negligence. A baby will sleep in the pram, but for a toddler to be abandoned alone strapped in the pram is capital punishment.

[giwook]

Giving them a tablet so you can get a brief moment of respite to do something you have to do is different from watching 8 hours of a screen a day!

[close04]

> how can a child that can't even walk yet have the practice to know how to skip the ads

At 2 kids can walk and have fine enough motor skills to press a small button, if that was the direction you were thinking.

Kids are surprisingly intuitive and form connections super quickly. It probably took a few tries, and maybe the parent even showed them how to do it: button appeared in the corner > press it > see fun content. If something works they commit it to memory like you wouldn't imagine.

[beAbU]

The other day, while waiting for my kebab at the kebab shop, a kid that was also there got a lollipop from the lady at the till. She went to show her mum, and asked for her to take a picture of it for some reason.

She held the lollipop out in front of her, with her open palm behind the lolly to create a bigger focus target for the camera. This is a common trick for content creators who showcase small items (like make-up products) on camera, to avoid autofocus issues.

She was maybe 4. I was pretty dismayed when I saw that, to be honest.

I have a 4 month old, and at the moment the only screen time she's allowed is video calls with the grandparents, who are in a different country. Neither me or the wife are even allowed to operate our phones while the baby can see the screen, let alone watch tv! She turns into an instant zombie, even if I am just reading HN.

[Markoff]

most of the kids learn to walk around age 1, by the age 2 they should be already speaking