I gave this to my almost 2 year old granddaughter for Christmas. After two rides where we kept our hands right by her we just set her up and let her go!! She loves it! She is not able to set it back up alone and needs someone to hold it in place when she climbs on because she is so small but it is obvious she is going to love this for a long time!! I wish the one for up to 70 pounds wasn't 3x's the cost of this one. Then I would get my almost 3 yr old granddaughter one also (she is too close to the 40 lb limit to invest in her own smaller one.