Three things that one should not do.
1. It's not really that good of an idea to let a toddler play with your car keys.
2. It's also not that good of an idea to let her play in the car while carrying said
keys, and you are standing outside.
3. It becomes a pretty bad idea if you don't remember that all of the keys to the car are now inside the car before she closes the door and hits the "lock" button.
She doesn't quite understand language well enough yet to take verbal directions, but fortunately she thought it was all a nice game, and kept poking and pulling at the various buttons and handles on the door in response to me pantomiming pressing the "unlock" button. After about 10 minutes she finally pulled the door handle and opened the door, just about the time S_ finally got hold of the car unlocking people on the phone. So, no ultimate harm done. Luckily, she didn't stick the keys in the ignition and start the car. Wouldn't *that* just have been the icing on the cake . . .
2. It's also not that good of an idea to let her play in the car while carrying said
keys, and you are standing outside.
3. It becomes a pretty bad idea if you don't remember that all of the keys to the car are now inside the car before she closes the door and hits the "lock" button.
She doesn't quite understand language well enough yet to take verbal directions, but fortunately she thought it was all a nice game, and kept poking and pulling at the various buttons and handles on the door in response to me pantomiming pressing the "unlock" button. After about 10 minutes she finally pulled the door handle and opened the door, just about the time S_ finally got hold of the car unlocking people on the phone. So, no ultimate harm done. Luckily, she didn't stick the keys in the ignition and start the car. Wouldn't *that* just have been the icing on the cake . . .