[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!