What Clodfobble said.

yep, lesson learned the hard way here. try explaining why daddy came home from work early to "snuggle" with mommy just once, and you'll start locking the doors.

I have a keyless thumblatch on the inside of the master bedroom door to protect against that sort of thing but even a two-year old can open it from the inside (it can only be latched from the inside). I thought Steve meant that he had a lock on the bedroom door that he has to use a key to access from the hallway outside. Any boy worth his salt is going to try to pick it at some point. http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/cool.gif

edit: did not see Steve's post (2 above this one) before posting this.

I remember learning as a child that bathroom locks could be popped open from the outside with a paperclip.

But I only used this knowledge for good, not evil.

Actually a thin screwdriver works well on ours.

I always did the slide the credit card in the lock tongue trick.

Used to bust into the boss' office at my old job when he was out and we needed something, because he was too paranoid to give his secretary a key, but too cheap to buy good locks.

That's a deadly combination!

I had a lot of fun the day that the boss stupidly locked his keys in his office.

He was flustered, didn't know what to do, his wife (who was the bookkeeper for the company) was 'down the shore' and unavailable to rescue him, and more importantly, the keys to the Beamer that he needed to be driving in the next five minutes to go to the meeting to close a deal were in the office. Same keyring that the sacred boss' office key was on.


I let him sweat for a while, then walked over to him.

I looked toward the far end of the office and pointed and shouted "Holy mother of god, do you see the size of the rat!"

And opened the door.

"You must have been too anxious about the meeting and didn't realize that the door was a little ajar. All you were doing was jiggling the doorknob. You must not have tried pushing. You better ask the landlord about an exterminator."

That's OK, just tell the kid you were having a fight so as not to upset them.

Locks on inside doors can be a blessing if someone breaks in. They might buy you an extra minute or two that could save your life. ;)

Here in DC a few years back, we had a rash of home robberies by a group called the "polite burglers." They spoke the King's English with a proper British accent and were very considerate of the victims when they woke them up to show them to the goodies. They would apologize for brandishing weapons ("absolutely necessary, you know") and would thank the victims for the bounty.

They were highly skilled and never set off any of the alarms installed in the houses they robbed. Since then, I installed the locks on the inside of our bedroom doors.

I don't recall that they were ever apprehended. Happy Monkey? Garnet?? Anyone??? Beuller????

"snuggle"... that's a good one.

How did you explain mommy being handcuffed to the bed?

When my daughter was potty training. she went poop in the potty and then for no reason just started to refuse. For her it was a control issue (of her bowels and her mom!) the Dr. suggested to not make an issue of it and let her control when she goes in the potty again.....it worked but it did stink!

Well, any progress??

I'm interested B/C I'm thinking about training for my 26mo old daughter. Anyone with any good advice? Bad stories? I don't plan on using pull-ups, do plan on using cloth diapers/real undies and plastic pants & the M&M's as a reward trick.

Just wing it. Every kid is different. Our son was going without diapers during the day at an earlier age than our daughter. On the other hand, our daughter has never wet the bed even once, and our son continues to practically every night at age 6.

Whatever you do, don't give her a chance to turn it into a control issue.

And don't let anybody else tell you there's one single "right" way to do it.

My mother-in-law has told me many times the story of my husband's brother and bed-wetting... apparently he was still wetting the bed nightly at the age of 9 or so. She ended up buying this bedwetting alarm from some catalog. They would have to go into his room after he was asleep and put it back under him every night, because he would take it off the bed. When it went off, usually four or five times a night, she would get him up, clean him, and wipe his face with a cold washcloth to make sure he was really awake. She said it took about three weeks of this routine before he stopped wetting the bed.