Parents: Is there a lock on your bedroom door?

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This question is intended primarily for parents, though I suppose members who don’t have children could answer based on their parents.

In any case, as parents, do you have a lock on your bedroom door? If so, how often is it locked?

We have one, that we only lock when special privacy is needed.

When I was growing up, my mom kept her bedroom locked whenever she wasn’t home.
 
To the parents who don’t lock their door: how do you avoid accidental walk-ins when additional privacy is required?
 
We put a lock on the bedroom door. The kids learned how to pick it with the handle of a spoon.

I guess kids themselves can be a form of birth control. LOL

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Steven Merten
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We have locks on all bedroom and bathroom doors - the house just came that way… . We always knock before opening a closed door, we don’t barge in on our son and he does not barge in on us - it is a matter of respecting each other’s privacy.

During those “private moments”, we lock the door - but, 9 times out of 10, it is late and kiddo is sleeping.
 
Steven Merten:
We put a lock on the bedroom door. The kids learned how to pick it with the handle of a spoon.

I guess kids themselves can be a form of birth control. LOL

Peace in Christ,
Steven Merten
www.ILOVEYOUGOD.com
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God Bless you and much love and peace to you

Teresa
 
My siblings and I are all adults now, but we occasionally joke about “the click heard 'round the house” when we were growing up.

My parents were the only ones with a lock on their door, and we would all smirk to each other the next morning after hearing the very loud click of their lock as mom and dad retired on certain evenings. 🙂
 
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Princess_Abby:
My siblings and I are all adults now, but we occasionally joke about “the click heard 'round the house” when we were growing up.

My parents were the only ones with a lock on their door, and we would all smirk to each other the next morning after hearing the very loud click of their lock as mom and dad retired on certain evenings. 🙂
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:rotfl: :rotfl: Oh now you’ve got me nervous about my kids “KNOWING!” I’m going to have to work on that quiet click before they get old enough to understand what it means!
 
We have a lock on our bedroom door but that was there when we moved in. We only lock the door if we are having some…uh…alone time:whistle: … when the kids are awake. Usually we tell them that we are discussing something privately and need to be alone. At night, because they are asleep, we don’t lock the door. We have tried to teach them to knock before they enter. So far, this has worked.
 
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kage_ar:
We always knock before opening a closed door, we don’t barge in on our son and he does not barge in on us - it is a matter of respecting each other’s privacy.
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Yes, it’s that way here, too. But kids being kids, they sometimes forget to knock in the excitement of a moment.
 
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ThyKingdomCome:
Oh now you’ve got me nervous about my kids “KNOWING!” I’m going to have to work on that quiet click before they get old enough to understand what it means!
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Once you fix the click, then you’ll be worried about some other noise or tell-tale sign. It’s a never ending battle, unless you just accept it.
 
Makes you wonder how anyone ever had kids back in the Bible days, when everyone was sleeping in the same room or tent :bigyikes:

DaveBj
 
Absolutely… not only for “private” moments, but for dressing, using the bathroom, and the sorts of privacy that the kids are entirely aware of. “The Click” sets off no alarms.

Let’s just say there are some things that would make explaining Santa Claus a piece of cake and some vivid memories I’d rather not imprint on anyone’s brain. Our kids know about privacy and usually respect it, but if something upset them in the middle of the night, I wouldn’t trust them to knock first. The fifteen or twenty seconds they may have to wait to have their nightmare attended to will be something they’ll thank me for some day. (Otherwise – talk about making a bad situation worse! Ack!)

The lock takes a key and it isn’t the front door key. We lock important stuff in there when we’re on vacation, since many theives will only take what they can gather up in 5-10 minutes.
 
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BLB_Oregon:
Absolutely… not only for “private” moments, but for dressing, using the bathroom…
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Um, dressing and potty time aren’t “private” moments? 😃
 
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Timidity:
Um, dressing and potty time aren’t “private” moments? 😃
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Let’s just say that there are activities that are so private that, if interrupted, the intruder would undoubtedly want an explanation of what exactly they had intruded upon! Merely being caught in some state of undress is not even in that league!
 
All the doors have locks, it’s new house so it came that way.
We don’t tend to lock our doors because our kids are small and in the mornings our 2 year old comes in to wake us up. For ‘private’ moments he’s normally asleep.
Though with the 5 month old in our room, ‘private’ moments have been very rare as of yet. 🙂
 
Well, when my parents remodeled our house, they put those little privacy locks on all the doors (except me, I was really into keys, so they let me have a keyed lock that is the same as the house key, so it doesn’t provide me extra security, just privacy as any other lock would). The only time I ever have known them to lock their door was once when we had a house sitter, they had me flip the gaurdplate on their bedroom so that even the safety key wouldn’t open their bedroom from the outside. They have a back door that was keyed separately from the previous owners, and we locked that and gave only the front door key to the house sitter. That was just a matter of protecting their space. Basically, we all knock on closed doors, so locks aren’t exactly necessary for us.

Eamon
 
Every time I see this poll pop up I can’t help but ask myself
“Who is asking?”
I am not sure what this means.
 
Our bedroom is a “family” style one (meaning my young ones are in there with us). The bedroom is for sleeping, not, er… other things. 😉 We have other places and situations for… other things, and those areas can either lock or somehow be temporarily “off limits”.

MT
 
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