Anonymous wrote:In a bin, under stuff in the trunk of your car.
In a tote bag with a zipper on the floor in your closet.

I would do the trunk of the car idea.

Anonymous wrote:If it fits behind a row of books on a bookshelf, do that. Cleaning supplies is another great spot. If there’s a book cover for a different book that would fit over it, use that cover and put the book on a high bookshelf.

+1 -- This! Its in the open and you could even read it in front of the kids. They'd think you were reading another boring book.

Shoe box with shoes on top.

If it fits behind a row of books on a bookshelf, do that. Cleaning supplies is another great spot. If there’s a book cover for a different book that would fit over it, use that cover and put the book on a high bookshelf.

under your mattress

Buried in off-season clothes in a closet? I get your concern, I was a major snoop as a child.

Put a lock on your luggage.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, what is the topic of this workbook that you feel the need to hide it?

Letting your kids see that you are getting help for something could be a good thing and open the door to them sharing future challenges with you.

When I was in therapy many years ago, my kids were about 12 and 9. My daughter saw my therapist's card and asked me who it was for. I was honest and said it was a therapist I'd been seeing for anxiety.

It was a slightly uncomfortable conversation at the time but then a few years later my daughter was going through some mental health challenges and came to me to ask to go to therapy.

When I was around 4th grade age, I found a book my mom gave my dad about being a workaholic. And a slightly risque marital counseling book. So I was ready when I got called to see their pastor counselor. It was the 70s. It didn't faze me a bit.

They're still married.

My older son looked through all my books when he was a child. Finished reading "Art of Racing in the Rain" fished out of my travel bag. Then I learned from his questions that there was a seedy side to a feel good dog narrator story. He also got his hands on a Helen Hoang book while I wasn't looking.

Please don’t clog the thread with a boring diversion like this.

DCUM is just a diversion. Lighten up. There are plenty of suggestions.

Serious lock box.
Put the box in a hiding place or at least out of sight
If anyone asks say it's private.

Oh man, I feel this OP since I was a very nosy teenager. I can help you. I snooped in all the normal snooping spots- bedside tables, underwear drawers, boxes on the top shelf of their walk in closet especially if the box looked like it had been just placed there, etc. I also snooped through the office- old medical records, school records, etc for all of my family members! I will say I'd have never snooped in the dining room sideboard- so if it was wrapped up in table cloths I'd have been not interested. We also had tons of bookshelves so if it was in a particularly boring book jacket, on a top shelf of one of our little used bookshelves, I'd have not noticed it for a few years at least (I did take down most books at one point, to page through, just out of boredom). Or you could keep it in your car and in your purse- basically just on your person all the time.

Or, as an adult now, I'd probably just get a serious lock box if this were something for therapy where I was writing things about my parenting struggles or my relationships with my children- things that I would 10000% need to keep private from them. I wouldn't risk it.

In the Room of Requirement!

Sorry, I’m a total dweeb.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, what is the topic of this workbook that you feel the need to hide it?

Letting your kids see that you are getting help for something could be a good thing and open the door to them sharing future challenges with you.

When I was in therapy many years ago, my kids were about 12 and 9. My daughter saw my therapist's card and asked me who it was for. I was honest and said it was a therapist I'd been seeing for anxiety.

It was a slightly uncomfortable conversation at the time but then a few years later my daughter was going through some mental health challenges and came to me to ask to go to therapy.

When I was around 4th grade age, I found a book my mom gave my dad about being a workaholic. And a slightly risque marital counseling book. So I was ready when I got called to see their pastor counselor. It was the 70s. It didn't faze me a bit.

They're still married.

My older son looked through all my books when he was a child. Finished reading "Art of Racing in the Rain" fished out of my travel bag. Then I learned from his questions that there was a seedy side to a feel good dog narrator story. He also got his hands on a Helen Hoang book while I wasn't looking.

Please don’t clog the thread with a boring diversion like this.

Anonymous wrote:On the bookshelf. Seriously. Teens are nosy and snoop. I know my kids have been caught snooping and I used to do it as a teen as well. I never once went through the books on our bookshelf, though. I did snoop through every bag I found once when left home alone, so I'd pass on that.

Another place would be folded inside of a towel that is one no one ever uses.

There's also a thin wall safe you can purchase on Amazon for under $50 that looks like a piece of artwork.

No not all teens snoop. Some teens are busy with life, school, friend, and sports. Sorry for people who have noisy weirdos.

Anonymous wrote:Hide it underneath something racy and distracting? Your vibrator?

This is obvi the correct answer!!

We have a box of speciality lightbulbs that are hard to find. I hide stuff in place of the bottom layer of the big box that they come in. Do you have something extremely boring like that to use as a decoy?

You could also fold it inside of a hoodie or sweater in a stack of folded ones.