What do you all do with the windows in your kids' bedrooms? Ever keep them open? Always closed?
I keep D's window closed. I just checked on D during his nap and somehow he managed to open the window glass into the room (we have the windows where you can do this to easily clean the outsides). Anyway, now I will be locking his windows (I'm not sure if I did this or if he unlocked them, too).
Now that it's warm, it would be nice to leave his window open to allow some fresh air in. But there is no way I'm leaving his window open for fear he would climb up on the sill and fall through the screen.
We're having a similar problem. In the new house the kids' windows open like this:
Asher can open the lock by himself and I'm terrified. Until we can find a way to limit how for they can open we'll be keeping those windows completely closed.
Ours are closed, locked, and I have the curtains shut mainly for them. The windows in our room are open so Hanna's room gets a breeze from mine if needed, plus we have a fan. Her window would be very easy to climb out of, and we are a one story, but it would still be scary if that happened. So I put her cubby shelf in front of it. V is different and opens hers if she wants to.
We leave one of Henry's cracked open and have a window fan in the other. He's never shown any interest in opening them (or in them at all) but now I'm paranoid. His bedroom is on the second floor.
Post by xanthepants on May 6, 2015 14:02:14 GMT -5
We are in a one story. We occasionally open her window but the screen is always in place. It is super difficult to raise up so I don't suspect she could lift it enough to get her body thru.
We have out windows open right now & leave Dagnys open too. It would be 5,000 degrees in her room otherwise. Honestly it never occurred to me to worry about her falling through the screen & I don't think it would ever occur to her to try & climb out of them. Ours pull up so no way could she open them on her own!
Closed and locked when they are sleeping, open during the day when its nice.
We have these on the two windows in their room and have since Dahlia was a baby. Love them! The alarm is sends off is so loud, it gives me peace of mind. Even in summer when the ac is in their window, we have an additional small piece up top so if someone were to tip the ac or if she pushed it or something, it would still alarm, we tested it good since i'm a nut and our house is a ranch so all one level. www.walmart.com/ip/GE-45115-Wireless-Window-Alarms-2pk/16561504 window
Post by somethingcleverer on May 6, 2015 14:13:31 GMT -5
I open the windows but we have the kind where I can open the top and leave then bottom down. I don't think Aubrey even realizes that her windows are open. In our room we have the crank out kind and I open them and never really considered them falling out. All bedrooms are on the second floor but we are usually downstairs.
Post by summergirl1211 on May 6, 2015 14:23:53 GMT -5
Riley's window is always closed and locked. Our rooms are both on the first floor but her room faces the street, which already makes me nervous. I would love to get some fresh air in her room but the sounds from outside (especially the motorcycles- she freaks about those) prevent me from doing so.
Sorry for the added paranoia laurski81! I didn't think he had an interest until I heard him call down that he was getting some fresh air in his room. I guess I rubbed off on him with my love of open windows and fresh air.
We have the kind that you can open the very top and the bottom stay closed so I've been cracking the top since its been hot. She has never shown any interest in her window and she can't even reach it.
mightybee no, I'm glad you brought this up! I can't believe it's never crossed my mind...especially with Henry. He is rarely in his room by himself during the day, since his play area is downstairs, but still. Both of his windows open to lower roofs so I guess it wouldn't be a legit 2 story drop...ugh I could totally imagine him making his way onto the roof and calling me from there.
We live in a one story but my concern is someone coming in. I guess I'm more paranoid about that then I am about him climbing out. We open a few of our windows and turn the attic fan on during the day but always closed and locked at night.
Very rarely do we open any windows at home. It's nice maybe 3 days of the year and the rest it's hot and humid so I make full use of our A/C. I would not leave them open overnight anyway because of our alarm system.
Post by sarahandeddie on May 6, 2015 15:06:36 GMT -5
I am also paranoid. I open them a crack during the day. Ours have stops built in. I'm looking into window guards for our new house because the bedrooms are on the second floor.
Man I'm going to seriously freak some of you out & tell you I leave our windows open all the time. Like when we aren't home I will leave them open. And all night. And no alarm system.
I leave them open all the time. He doesn't really bother with them. Sometimes he looks out the one in our bedroom (and climbs on the radiator) but there is a screen and we are right there. When he's in a bed, I do have the option of opening from the top.
I know, mightybee. The previous owners obviously didn't have young children! Luckily, Asher only opened it once and we gave him a severe lecture. He's very funny in that when he knows something's unsafe and he understands that it's dangerous he won't do it again. Plus, the blinds are always closed in his room when he's in there, so I don't think it occurs to him to open the window. We are currently searching for a safety lock that will work on this type.
We leave Kayleigh's open when the weather is nice. The bedrooms are on the second floor and its a full two-story drop. I'm really not at all concerned. She has never shown any interest in the windows at all. Occasionally she will go over to the window to check out when the school bus or a truck goes by, but thats about it. She's also not a climber. Our windows are a bit older, so they don't open/close very easily so at this point. She wouldn't even be able to open it wide enough to get her body through.
Man I'm going to seriously freak some of you out & tell you I leave our windows open all the time. Like when we aren't home I will leave them open. And all night. And no alarm system.
We do the same. We don't have central air so we rely on the open windows to cool down the house. We have a couple window units, but we only put them in during the summer and even then try to not use them if its not really necessary. We try not to leave the first floor windows open if we're not home, but the second story windows are almost always open.
Post by bantyrooster on May 7, 2015 7:30:45 GMT -5
PSA. My brother and SIL's nephew on her side pushed out a screen. He fell head first out the window into the ground below. Thank God he only fell 5 feet ish. He spend 4 days in the pediatric ICU. So please please don't think it won't happen to you or that the first floor is okay.
Another little boy about 3 years ago here fell out of the second story onto the driveway and died.
I don't mean to scare tactic, but toddlers are curious and if they push on a screen to look out it will more than likely push forward. SIL's brother is still sick over it. His big message is if the windows need to be open to only open an inch or two and I think they sell locks that block them from being pushed open more. Then if they do get the screen out their bodies can't fit through.
I come from a huge sleep walking family. My dad and all three of us sleep walk so my mom locked up the house at night. The windows were down, with the storm windows down and both had locks. The more barriers between us and the outside was better because when you are sleep walking you can do normal stuff but if it takes too long then you wake up or you move on in your dream, or someone hears you. My brother managed to still get the window unlocked, storm window up and kick the screen out before my parents found him dangling from his 2nd story window. I don't know how my mom ever slept with all of us in the same house.
This obviously is not the case with everyone and you all know your kids better, so do what is right in your house. I really don't think P would try to climb out or show any interest at all but I wouldn't be able to sleep so we keep them closed. He has shown some sleep walking tendencies so I'm way more paranoid than normal. If I didn't have air conditioning then that would be a different story and we would definitely be teaching him to stay away or figure something out. I like the idea of the locks that can't open past a certain point, might have to look into those for my room. I could probably still get around them in my sleep though.
Add my brother to a list of children who have fallen out of a 2nd story window. Granted his incident occurred the first day they visited friends in FL for a family vacation and he was like 18mo or so. He went running across the apartment when he heard a motorcycle, they had floor-ceiling windows, and he ran right into the window and the screen popped off and he went with it. Luckily he fell straight down into a bush with the screen right under him and was laughing when they got to him.
That's an odd extreme case though.
Our old apt. the windows were super high off the ground, so we didn't have to worry, wouldn't even now. IL's house has crank windows that open out that mostly remain closed, but J can't reach the locks for those anyway. They've been open during the day and she just looks out, but they're always closed and locked when she's in her room for nap or bedtime.
Our new house has windows that slide up/down, and I haven't seen her height in comparison to the windows, so I'll have to make that call when we get there. But likely they'll be closed and locked most of the time, and definitely when she's in her room. But we may open them when it's nice out during the daytime. I've thought briefly of looking into the mounts that keep the window from going up too far.. we may have to look into that since the kids BR's are on the 2nd floor.
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