3+?

I hate, HATE when you go to Toys 'R Us to buy a toy for a child and they're marked "age appropriate." What does that mean exactly? I think SOME are labeled correctly; however, yesterday I purchased a shopping cart with mini cardboard play-food (which you can tell she LOVES by the expression on her face), and it was labeled with a big fat AGES 3+. What the heck? Can someone please explain to me why my mobile child can't put/play/walk with a shopping cart? The second I gave it to her, she took off and went "shopping" like YOU READ ABOUT! She does this with me on a weekly (okay, sometimes daily) basis, so she damn well knew what she was doing. She's a professional at this and I think children can be exposed to such toys as these well before the age of 3. By the time she is 3, I plan on her already having her drivers license and not just pushing toys around my home.




In the bottom photos she was grabbing boxes, looking at the pictures,"reading" ingredients to tell me watch she needed, and then she was saying "bye-bye" like she knew she needed to go check out....so cute she is!