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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've done some googling about locking kid's doors and most articles seem to center on it's a fire hazard. However, in standard houses, the lock is inside the room. Seems a toddler, or even an older kid, could lock the door from inside their room, and now if there is a fire, you can't easily access the kid in their room.

Switching the door knob so the lock is outside sounds like it keeps a young kid from roaming the house at night, falling down stairs, eating cat food, etc. And if there is an emergency, the parent can open the locked door by flipping the lock/knob from the outside and getting in.

Some people are imagining these are padlocks with keys elsewhere. Seriously, it's the simple lock that's probably on most of your kid's doors, just flipped around.

One night our security alarm was set off by a magnet falling and all of our kids slept through the blaring alarm. I realized if the smoke detectors had gone off, all my kids would have stayed asleep and it was up to us to wake them up.

I had an ODD teen and our house rule was no locked bedroom doors (shut was ok). One kept locking their door so we finally removed the door entirely. There was a bathroom attached, so plenty of privacy for dressing.

Anyway, I disagree that it's against the law to lock kid's bedroom doors to (IMO) keep them safe at night. Baby gates don't work for kids that are climbing monkeys.

Sure, you can set up motion detectors, but isn't it better if you have a wanderer, to just put them in a room where the only thing to do is sleep?

I know someone who switched the door locks for their wandering toddler and they have a potty and sippy cup of water inside the room.[/quote]

+1 I’m thinking back to what I used to do and I used a child safety knob on the inside doorknob so my son couldn’t open the door and get out at night. It was the only thing that kept him in his room.[/quote]
I forgot to mention that the couple I know who do this tried the plastic safety knob on the inside doorknob and the kid figured out how to squeeze it! So that's why they flipped the direction of the doorknob.

Effectively the plastic safety knob functions to keep the kid locked/stuck inside their room, same as flipping the doorknob.

Since I feel the flipped knob is probably safer for fire concerns, I don't agree that the Duggar wife should have been charged.

If there is a fire, a toddler could leave the room and hide elsewhere in the house. Since it takes half a second to unlock the door from the outside, you aren't delayed in rescuing the child. And you don't have to deal with a kid (or teen) who has locked the door from inside and is sleeping through the alarm.[/quote]

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