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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I come from a large family. We never used our front door. It opened into the fancy part of our small home. All our friends and neighbors came around to the back door. It was weird when someone knocked on the front door. [/quote]

I think MIL is trying to make this a thing at our new home. She chooses to go around the garage, through the side gate (and by then the dogs are aware and jumping all over her), through the yard, past the pool and up the flights of stairs to the back deck to get in the back door so it's really quite an effort! We are worried the dogs are going to knock her down or in the pool.[/quote]

Annnnnnnnd you haven’t told her to stop this because…?

If you have told her to stop and she continues, simply don’t open the back door. Call through that she should come around to the front. Make her repeat that process a few times, and she’ll be fully trained before you know it.[/quote]

Oddly that has happened a few times that we didn't hear them at the back door so they had to go all the way back around and use their key (I guess not realizing it was the same key?) We have a great relationship, and we don't tell each other to do ANYTHING. We stated our concerns and it seems to float her boat to head in the back so it's her thing now- but only during daylight hours as we let her know that the side yard is often where the dogs poop and I don't get out every day to pick it up like I should. Or sometimes when the kids know they are coming, they all sit in the window bench and they then open the front door, call out and hold the dogs back. I feel like the back door is kind of her VIP entrance that they prefer and I guess it makes me happy that we finally have a home where she can conceivably do this- it strikes me that she has been dying to use it- only because it's a change/no one else does this. Though it hearkens to a time when backdoor/casual use was common, she is literally the only one who enters that way at our parties, so when we are entertaining outdoors like we normally are, she enters like a boss and it's kind of cute. She's the least in-your-face or bossy person ever- so this fascinates DH and me (he says this was not a thing at their home growing up!)[/quote]

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