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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What emergency would come up that you couldn't just unlock or bang the door down.

Some people just have way too much of a coddled world.  A lock door is just some privacy.  Nothing more, nothing less. [/quote]

Bingo.  I laughed at the PPs who won't let their kids lock their doors because they're such heavy sleepers they won't hear a smoke alarm.  Think about that- their teen child is unable to get out of a burning building and rather than focus on teaching a true life-or-death skill, they say the door has to be unlocked.  If your kid is truly that deep of a sleeper, then push the smoke detector button a couple times at 2am on a Saturday.  I guarantee everyone will be out of bed in under 30 seconds.

Besides- what if the parent is incapacitated or gone for the night?  Teach a little self preservation.[/quote]

I'm the parent who posted about sleeping, and I'm really curious how you teach waking up as a skill.  Trust me, I'd love to know.

I'm a really bad cook, so I've set off the smoke detector, which is directly outside DC's door, while making breakfast more times than I care to admit.  He's never stirred.  He's also slept through his alarm and missed things that he definitely wanted to do, more than once.  Do I worry?  Of course I do.  But it's hard to teach someone what to do when they're asleep, so if you know how then please tell me.  In the meantime, given that I don't want to have to break down the door on school mornings and our locks don't have holes for pins, I'll keep telling to leave his door unlocked at night.  [/quote]

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