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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.
The washing machine at work is a top loader, it has a child safety lockout to prevent kids from spinning their siblings. The mechanism is literally just push the same button twice to start instead of just once.
If I'm a kid trying to give my brother a ride in the washing machine and it doesn't work when I hit the button, the first thing I'd do is hit that button again. It really seems like just a checklist item rather than an actual safety feature.
Yeah that's nuts. Seems like they've done the bare minimum to have a child lock feature! Are the controls at the top and the back so you have to reach over?
I don't get why Americans are so keen on top loading washing machines. In many other countries they were phased out decades ago. So dangerous!
They are also much, much better at cleaning clothes than front loaders. I don't and won't have kids and I am definitely replacing my 2-hours-to-do-a-shitty-job front loader.
Solution:
Why is your two year old left unsupervised long enough to get to the washing machine and press buttons?
edit apparently its normal to let two year olds roam free to press buttons. Shrug. One second to push a washing machine button.
One second to put a finger in a socket. One second to pull a pan from the stove. One second to open the dishwasher while its running. One second to eat a marble.
Uh? She's two, she can wander around the kitchen and living room safely just fine. The washing machine is in the kitchen as we don't have a separate utility room.
Just to add, she was right in front of me, but it took her a second to reach up and press it.
One second to put a finger in a socket. One second to pull a pan from the stove. One second to open the dishwasher while its running. One second to eat a marble.
And yet most of them make it to three, huh?
One second to put a finger in a socket. One second to pull a pan from the stove. One second to open the dishwasher while its running. One second to eat a marble.
Do you think that parents take their kids into the restroom with them, take their kids into the shower with them, and lock the children into cages during the night when they are sleeping?
That is a crib for an infant, not a bed for a two year old.
Not to mention they can climb out of cribs around the time they can walk, which is about 1 year old.
edit apparently its normal to let two year olds roam free to press buttons. Shrug. One second to push a washing machine button.
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.
One second to put a finger in a socket. One second to pull a pan from the stove. One second to open the dishwasher while its running. One second to eat a marble.
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.
“Omg are you telling me to put my child in a cage?!”
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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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?
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