Lawrence wrote:


Change
the locks so that they require a key, inside and out, and you will not
have to guess where your child is when, god forbid, they go missing.
Children like to play games and hide-and-seek is a favorite.

Lawrence


In many localities locks which require a key on the inside to open them
are illegal for obvious fire safety reasons.

There's no easy way you can install locks which will keep kids contained
and also let them to follow your instructions about leaving the house if
a fire breaks out. You could of course spend a gazillion bucks on a
battery backed up automated system which would release the kiddy locks
when a fire alarm detector went off, but that's a long run for a short
slide.

When our kids were small I installed sliding bolts mounted a couple of
inches below the top of the entry doors and on the doors of closets we
didn't want them to get into. By the time our children were tall enough
to reach those bolts even when standing on a kitchen chair they were
well enough trained so that the bolts weren't needed anymore. And, they
were NEVER left at home alone, even for 5 minutes, during their early years.

Jeff

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