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Actually it seems by your unwillingness to contribute to the conversation that you are annoyed by it, which would be fine if you just said that. But what we're trying to do is help you solve a problem you have said you're facing. Our goals are aligned with yours.
In order to do that, since some of us are of the opinion that your approach is fundamentally flawed (restricting via software) we're trying to work with you to find out an alternate approach. The first one offered was to talk to the child. You have implied that is impossible because the child is too young.
So I suggested not handing the child a tablet or smartphone or whatever at all. I don't see any way in which any interaction with such a device could be beneficial to such a young child at all, except maybe communication with a physically distant family member or something. Certainly not unsupervised! Like, I'm understanding correctly that you have handed a child who is too young to discuss complex topics with a smart device and just walked off? Please tell me that's not correct.
And please explain at what point in all this we moved from "acceptable unsolicited advice" to "annoying." Is it the point at which you realized you might have been wrong about something?