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2 year old can unlock and open front door
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Anonymous
| My 2.5 year old can now unlock the dead bolt and open the front door. Aside from watching him every second, is there a locking solution anyone found to solve this problem? A dead bolt that requires a key? |
Anonymous
| A chain across the top of the door. |
Anonymous
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You can install or have installed an alarm that will beep when the front door opens. We had this on our previous house (already there when we moved in). One night I was watching my friend's daughter overnight and she opened the door and headed out in the middle of the night. She was about your son's age at the time. It is the only thing that woke me up to catch her! Thank god! She told me she was going home to see her mom - about ten blocks away!
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Anonymous
| Can she use the childproof doorknob covers? They are the only thing that stop my preschooler. |
Anonymous
| Mine is the same way. You can put a lock higher than your DC can reach. Make sure it's high enough so that when your DC learns to push chairs around, they still can't reach it standing on a chair. |
Anonymous
| One of those simple sliding latches placed high above your child's reach. Make sure to unlatch after your kid goes to bed--in an emergency you don't want to be fumbling with it. |
Anonymous
We did this. It's relatively easy to install. |
Anonymous
This was our solution, too. |
Anonymous
| My son did this too when he was 2 - we just put a cheap hook lock at the top of the door. |
Anonymous
| I would do the chain on the door. super-easy to install. |
Anonymous
scares the cr@p out of me, we're keeping baby gates up forever |
Anonymous
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We did the deadbolt...
Then, after getting a security system alarm installed, we would threaten that the police would come if he opened it and caused the beeping. That worked. 
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Anonymous
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we installed this - very simple
http://www.kidsafeinc.com/product/8705/Door-Flip-Lock-for-Child-Safety.html |