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Locking doors? - from luvmykids post


moped wrote: What do you do to keep your kids in their room at night?

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: Wil is still in a crib, but he doesn't know how to turn knobs yet anyway. His door is typically closed. We also have gates on the top of our stairs just in case.

ammommy replied: Keep ushering him back in rolling_smile.gif

MyLuvBugs replied: Someone actually locks their kids in their room? I think I missed that post... Wow.

Well, Lorelei is still in her crib (Thank goodness), but she's almost tall enough to turn the knob on the doors now. rolleyes.gif DH and I have talked about this before while watching those Nanny 911 shows, and I think we'd just usher the kid right back into be without saying a word and just keep doing it. But she sleeps 11 hours at night without budging usually, so hopefully that won't be a problem. smile.gif

luvmykids replied:
Thats what we do when we're up. But at 4 this morning we weren't, thats the issue. When we're sleeping how to keep her from getting out and into trouble like she did last night where she could've gotten hurt.

kimberley replied: my house is fairly childproof and none of my kids like the dark so they dont come out in the middle of the night unless they need the washroom. Jade has roamed a few times but not for long cuz there's nothing to do or see lol. the novelty wore off.

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: we put the handle covers on the kids doors. If not they will get up in the middle of the night and wake the other one up.

My3LilMonkeys replied: Brooke has learned fairly well to stay in bed if she wakes up. We also keep the door closed (but not locked) after we go to bed because she can't quite work knobs yet.

PhiMuMommy replied: i don't.. i just taught my son to IMMEDIATLY wake someone up.. either me or my mom. and he has ALWAYS listened to this.. so i may just be lucky.

CantWait replied: I don't. If Anthony needs to get out at night, then usually it's just because he wants to come into bed with me, so I let him. I don't want to lock him in his room though, not unless it became a safety issue.

A&A'smommy replied: Alyssa is still in our room ohmy.gif I don't like being too far from her

CAMSMOM1 replied: Ok, this whole post is a stem from Monica's (luvmykids) post "Toddler Bed".



Monica never said she LOCKS HER CHILD IN THE ROOM. I just wanted to claify that for those of you who didnt' read her post.

She was saying that her youngest daughter, Macie, who is 2 yrs old, is getting out of bed at 4 in the morning. She said that her daughter is climbing out of her crib, and climb's OVER the saftey gate, and is getting into things at night, that could be a safety hazard. Her daughter was in the kitchen spraying water everywhere, and who knows what else she could've gotten into.

The locked door issue came up because nothing she has tried....such as gates, ect, hasn't worked. And she doesn't know what to do to keep her daughter in her room....KWIM? She wasn't implying that she locks her daughter in a room.

It is a BIG safety hazard, for a 2 year old to be waking up and getting into things.

And isn't a child gate is a form of locking them into the room so they can't get out? That is what she was talking about.

luvmykids replied:
Thanks, Ann! Maybe I worded it funny in my thread? Did I come across that I do that? I don't lock her in there, I just got scared after what happened last night and nothing else prevents her from getting out. Tonight we did put the door knob things on, which is essentially the same, but her getting out of her crib is not enough noise on a monitor to wake me up. While I was still up she did get out of bed and we could hear her fumbling with it but she went back to bed (crib) so she must've gotten the idea that she wasn't going to get out. No freak outs, thank goodness.

LilaGrace'sMom replied:
Lila is still in our room too--in a co sleeper. We bought a crib and mattress last week. It sits in the back room. I am just not ready to put her in a room down the hall. Im not ready at all! Doing it will tear my heart out. Is that odd? My DH jokes and says she will be 7 and still sleeping in the co-sleeper. That's fine with me. tongue.gif

As far as what we are going to do---geesh-- I haven't thought about that yet. Sigh! Something else to think about? Ack! wacko.gif

MamaJAM replied: We use a babygate across the boys' bedroom door...though DS#1 recently figured out how to open it. We have actually used a cabinet lock on the baby gate a few times to make sure the boys stay in their bedroom.

In the past - we had a door-knob-cover on a toddler's bedroom door...that way we could keep the door closed but it wouldn't be locked at all. But we've had two kids now who can disassemble door-knob-covers - so they don't work.

luvmykids replied:
The twins did that put I used one on Macie last night and so far she hasn't figured it out, so at least for now we've got a solution! biggrin.gif

A&A'smommy replied:
if she is only two months nah nothing wrong with that We co-slept with our daughter until she was 20months old and then it was just every now and then last night Alyssa fell and hit her head and even though she was fine i still wanted her close to me so I could listen to her breathe wub.gif tongue.gif You have plently of time

Sarah&Mackenzie replied: Well Mackenzie is still in her crib (will keep her in there as long as possible), but we will put a gate up in her doorway when she gets into a big bed.

mom21kid2dogs replied: My solution would never work for you, Jen! cool.gif We just sleep with 'em!! laugh.gif

moped replied:
LOL, no I guess it wouldn't, but I did love sleeping with Jack for 4 months! Oh how i loved it

moped replied: Just to clarify! Jack is still in a crib and doens't try or know how to get out. At bedtime we shut the lights out and close the door. I do not lock it. However, if there was a time when he was in a bed and getting out and sleepwalking or wandering around, got outside (god forbid) or something dangerous - and the whole house is sleeping, then yes - I would not rest until I knew he could not get out of his bed an walk out or soemthing ya know?

I am not a freaky lock the door mother, but I am all about safety! I have heard and seen bad things happen. My neice tends to wander the house aimlessly and she has wandered outside in the past - very very scary!

fashionmumofboys replied: Alesio is still in his crib and he doesn't even attempt to climb out. thumb.gif

Rambo hardly wakes up at night, so we are still safe with that. So far so good. Knock on wood.

ammommy replied: Question for those who close, gate, or lock the door to the bedroom. How do you handle nighttime potty trips? I know that Alec gets up nearly everynight to go to the bathroom and always wondered.

My3LilMonkeys replied:
Well Brooke isn't potty trained yet so not an issue here. She is pretty good about staying in her bed so I don't think it will be too much of an issue once she is trained.

luvmykids replied:
It's rare for the twins to need to go at night, but if they do they just do it and go back to bed. I didn't have the trouble with them that I do with Macie. She is potty training but still sleeps through it at night. If/when she needs to go at night, hopefully we'll have conquered the lone roamer thing and be able to give her access. If not, I guess she'll just yell into the monitor?

TANNER'S MOM replied: Ok please do not lock your children in there rooms. I understand what you are saying about them roaming..but get your child monitor on and listen for them. It is too dangerous in case of a fire. What if you couldn't get to them and they couldn't get out.

I don't even like the locks on the bedroom doors. That is my opionion. The bathroom I can understand water and chemicals in there.

Lets ask Ed?? WHere we stand with this being a fire hazard.

MamaJAM replied:
We gate doors until the night-time potty trips begin (for toddlers mostly). Once we know they _need_ to leave their rooms during the night we just make sure to have a gate at the stairs so they can't fall in a sleepy-state. ftr - We always have a gate at the top of the stairs and use it every night....it's just we make darn sure it's used when we have a night-training kiddo.


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