You never know how much children pay attention to what you are doing on your machine.My 2yr. old grandson watched me sew and while his mom was in another room(now it was unplugged and pushed to the center of the table where she thought he could not get to it)decided to plug it back up turn it on and sew,but the needle got his little finger and he could not get away.He wasn't hurt just mad because mom caught him and had to get him loose.