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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. I recently saw one of the morning shows or online where someone experienced this and they mentioned calling their children to one bedroom while dialing 9-1-1. That was always their safety plan to get the kids into one bedroom. If you keep all of your doors closed, how does that work? [/quote]

I don’t see how sleeping w your bedroom doors closed would make it harder for your kids to get into one bedroom? It takes like .5 seconds to open a door.

My plan (and yes, unfortunately, I have experienced a break in before…middle of the night) is to get everyone in my room which has a locking door, lock the door and dial 9-1-1. While on phone w 9-1-1, push/drag dresser in front of door as extra barrier. When we had a break in, we did all of the above and the police arrived within minutes and the person breaking in was easily caught/subdued so as scary as it was, I think we had the best outcome possible.[/quote]

Op here. I’m so sorry that has happened to you. Reasoning being with the open or closed -  It seems as if having opened doors would allow the children to hear you calling out faster than opening each door depending on the distance between bedrooms, no? [/quote]

I’m not trying to scare you or anything, but honestly what does it matter? The burglar will either be deterred by the presence of humans or he won’t. It makes no difference if you are all in the same room in 1min or 3min. The police would not arrive for awhile. [/quote]

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