NJ Toddler Orders Nearly $2,000 Worth of Furniture on Walmart Website

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Meet 22-month-old Ayaansh Kumar. He may still be in diapers, but he's already spending big online.

"It is really hard to believe that he has done this, but that’s what happened," said dad Pramod Kumar.

The screen-savvy New Jersey toddler somehow managed to order close to $2,000 worth of furniture online from Walmart. His mother, Madhu Kumar, had created a cart on her phone but never checked it out. When the furniture started being delivered this week, she asked her husband and two older children: Who ordered this?

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loc...orth-of-furniture-on-walmart-website/3508482/
 

I believe it. Years ago, when cellphones were a novelty, my 2-year-old granddaughter was playing with her mom's phone, and suddenly two cops showed up at the door. She had pressed 911!

We all thought it was very funny, but my daughter said the police were not amused. The phone was kept out of reach after that.
 
So they let the child play with their phone .....and they find it funny...
imagine how funny the person having to deliver and possibly pick up large item find it...

looks like he just tapped on items she had been looking at and added to cart then the checkout button usually is a bright color and easy to follow through if credit card is stored on site.....
another good reason to not have card # on file in site.
 
Jeni said:
So they let the child play with their phone .....and they find it funny...
imagine how funny the person having to deliver and possibly pick up large item find it...

looks like he just tapped on items she had been looking at and added to cart then the checkout button usually is a bright color and easy to follow through if credit card is stored on site.....
another good reason to not have card # on file in site.
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Brat!
 
To compare as I see posters here blaming the parents my dad left his pain killers of an eye injury and sweet orange-flavored vitamins lying around the house and I wound up eating a bunch of both. The painkillers would have killed me had my dad not discovered the open bottle. I leave my phone and remote lying around wherever I drop them. Of course, there are no kids present but I know it is common for parents to leave things where they should not from time to time. I'm sure there are thousands of stories about kids doing things with their parents' phones.
 
For years now I have seen toddlers sitting in shopping carts with a phone doing whatever. I guess, a phone is like a babysitter. When I took mine grocery shopping they were mindful of their surroundings and the process of shopping.
 
First of all, it was my granddaughter. Why are you all turning her into a boy?

Secondly, my daughter is not an idiot. No one "handed a young child a phone to play with." A phone was lying on (probably) a table, and the parents probably thought it was out of reach, or maybe didn't give it much thought at all, since until then, their toddler had shown no interest in it.

Why the hurry to cast blame? Good grief, it was a phone, not a gun!
 
Sunny said:
First of all, it was my granddaughter. Why are you all turning her into a boy?

Secondly, my daughter is not an idiot. No one "handed a young child a phone to play with." A phone was lying on (probably) a table, and the parents probably thought it was out of reach, or maybe didn't give it much thought at all, since until then, their toddler had shown no interest in it.

Why the hurry to cast blame? Good grief, it was a phone, not a gun!
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@Sunny, let me start off with saying I wasn't responding to your post, or commenting about your daughter or granddaughter. Mine was a general statement about parents who are very obviously handing over phones for young children to play with. I've seen it in grocery stores, restaurants, Costco, doctors' offices, on airplanes, outside schools while Mom chats with friend while picking up older children, and even even in playgrounds in parks and at campgrounds.

These aren't accidental occurrences. The children are clearly playing with their parents' phones with the full permission and knowledge of their parents. I stand by my statement that it's lazy parenting.

The "he" above posters are referring to would be the child in the OP news story.
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
When I took mine grocery shopping they were mindful of their surroundings and the process of shopping.
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Once when I took my baby shopping, he was sitting in the little child's seat, reached over and picked up a grapefruit while shouting, "ball" (one his first words), and threw it across the store hitting a stockman in the rear.

I do think kids are missing out on life when they have their noses in their phones all the time, that goes for ages two through twenty. They're growing up smart about computers, but dumb about a whole lot of other things.
 

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