Bar the Door!

[ThePinkSuperhero]

Left the kids with a babysitter last night, and they reminded me when I got home that O knows how to unlock and open the front door, and tried to escape to look for me.  Doh!  We knew that he could open it, and really need to get an extra lock/bar on the door ASAP.  Anyone else deal with this problem already?  Our door has trim around it, which makes me feel like it might be more difficult to install something, but maybe I'm wrong.

[mightybee]

We have covers over the knobs that you must squeeze to open. He can't open them and some times I can't even get them open!

[bliz1712]

Jan 29, 2015 11:13:34 GMT -5 mightybee said:

We have covers over the knobs that you must squeeze to open. He can't open them and some times I can't even get them open!

Our daycare has these too.  Or what about the chain things, like they have at hotels.  I'm sure you could install it outside the trim and the chain would then latch to the door.

[junkytrunk]

Jan 29, 2015 11:06:59 GMT -5 ThePinkSuperhero said:

Left the kids with a babysitter last night, and they reminded me when I got home that O knows how to unlock and open the front door, and tried to escape to look for me.  Doh!  We knew that he could open it, and really need to get an extra lock/bar on the door ASAP.  Anyone else deal with this problem already?  Our door has trim around it, which makes me feel like it might be more difficult to install something, but maybe I'm wrong.

We have the same issue! We haven't done anything about it yet either... *bad parent alert*

[aylafsu1881]

We have a couple different child proof door locks. We have the ones like PPs mentioned on a couple of the doors. Our front door though is one that has a long handle (lever handle). We ended up going with one that is designed for those types of handles. Both types work really well.

www.amazon.com/Safety-1st-Prograde-Lever-Handle/dp/B001FD4VNI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1422548461&sr=8-4&keywords=child+door+locks

[trixi282]

Jan 29, 2015 11:06:59 GMT -5 ThePinkSuperhero said:

Left the kids with a babysitter last night, and they reminded me when I got home that O knows how to unlock and open the front door, and tried to escape to look for me.  Doh!  We knew that he could open it, and really need to get an extra lock/bar on the door ASAP.  Anyone else deal with this problem already?  Our door has trim around it, which makes me feel like it might be more difficult to install something, but maybe I'm wrong.

Eek, that's not good!  Joey did this at my brother's house and went outside while I was in the bathroom and my H heard her knocking at the door and realized she wasn't with me in the bathroom!   She tried doing that at my IL's house once too since we've been there, because she wanted to play in the snow.  But we explained more than once that she's not allowed to go outside without an adult... she hasn't tried since, thankfully.

A chain would be an easy thing to install if you have really elaborate molding.  But a deadbolt or other extra lock wouldn't be too crazy to install either. 

[ThePinkSuperhero]

Jan 29, 2015 11:18:52 GMT -5 junkytrunk said:

Jan 29, 2015 11:06:59 GMT -5 ThePinkSuperhero said:

Left the kids with a babysitter last night, and they reminded me when I got home that O knows how to unlock and open the front door, and tried to escape to look for me.  Doh!  We knew that he could open it, and really need to get an extra lock/bar on the door ASAP.  Anyone else deal with this problem already?  Our door has trim around it, which makes me feel like it might be more difficult to install something, but maybe I'm wrong.

We have the same issue! We haven't done anything about it yet either... *bad parent alert*

Join the club, we have jackets...the backs say BORN TO RUN!

[aimeefarrahfowler]

There's one called the Door Guardian I want to get for the top of our door. My LO can unlock the knob and almost get the deadbolt unlocked too. It's scary!

[jennmm]

Daycare has a thing that fits over the knob. I have a hard time opening it, myself.

[laurski81]

We had to change our twist deadbolts to keyed deadbolts for this reason. Then we can lock it, take the keys out and he can't open it.

[sarahandeddie]

DD#1 figured out how to open doors about this age (when our J12 kiddos were babies). She escaped a few times. I had to run out of the house with A on my boob to catch her. I'm sure the neighbors got quite the show.

[bantyrooster]

Yup! He will leave. We have the door knob covers and he can't get it open, to be honest most guests can't even do it. We have them on the door outside, garage, and to the basement. Once H couldn't find him and he had went downstairs, closed the door behind him turned on all the lights and got into the storage room and was playing with golf clubs.

[zyas]

Jan 29, 2015 11:06:59 GMT -5 ThePinkSuperhero said:

Left the kids with a babysitter last night, and they reminded me when I got home that O knows how to unlock and open the front door, and tried to escape to look for me.  Doh!  We knew that he could open it, and really need to get an extra lock/bar on the door ASAP.  Anyone else deal with this problem already?  Our door has trim around it, which makes me feel like it might be more difficult to install something, but maybe I'm wrong.

Yikes!! Now you have me thinking about this. Ava knows how to open and close all the other doors in the house but she hasn't tried the front door yet. 

[candcmommy]

Cortlandt kept escaping when we first moved into our new house because lovely MIL let him just walk out whenever and she would follow. We put chain locks on the top of the front door, back door, and the door going to the garage!
If they pull it hard enough I am sure they could break it but they don't try anymore.