Well, I babysat a two year old and every day after school during the month of November. Two year olds are kind of hard to deal with sometimes. They can walk and talk, but you're not really sure how much they understand. Anyways, Toby, the two year old was really sweet, and didn't give me much trouble. While I was there, he only had one tantrum, and it happened to be when his mom was still there, so that was good for me. But yeah, when putting him to bed, he would sometimes protest, and if it got bad, I would tell him that the police man from Bob the Builder would arrest him. I'm not really sure about the picking up part. I don't know... I guess if they're really upset, and you know that they wont go straight into a tantrum, it would be okay, but otherwise I don't really know.