Creepy Dad

[PitterPatter]

Ugh the emergency exit thing... I've heard there are some regs that require this.

I look at it like this. None of my daycare parents leave their doors unlocked at night and they are sleeping while their kid is in the house.

It's not perfect but the unlocked door is a real obvious safety issue.

Question here-are you allowed to lock your front doors if it is designated as a emergency exit? We have to have posted evacuation plans with our paths drawn out. My front door and back door are both marked as an emergency exit so I don't think legally I would be able to lock those. Also if there was an emergency with me and the front door was locked my kids wouldn't understand or be able to unlock the door for help.

I have never heard of that rule but I will assume I am allowed to keep my door locked because when the monitors leave they always try to open the door and it doesn't open because I instinctivley lock it as soon as I shut it. They have pulled and I say sorry habit and unlock the top lock. They never say anything, In fact the Food Program lady has said once that's a good instinct to have.

I could never leave mine unlocked because I have a toddler that tries to run thinking its funny. He can't unlock it. I have gone to the bathroom and come back to see him trying really hard. Thank God he can't get out because he would have been down the street or worse!

[dEHmom]

I have never heard of that rule but I will assume I am allowed to keep my door locked because when the monitors leave they always try to open the door and it doesn't open because I instinctivley lock it as soon as I shut it. They have pulled and I say sorry habit and unlock the top lock. They never say anything, In fact the Food Program lady has said once that's a good instinct to have.

I could never leave mine unlocked because I have a toddler that tries to run thinking its funny. He can't unlock it. I have gone to the bathroom and come back to see him trying really hard. Thank God he can't get out because he would have been down the street or worse!

that's how i feel. some home invasions will happen during the day when someone knows that it's only a female home and no males. i understand the reasoning behind unlocked doors, but at the same time, i just think for the safety of the children the doors must be locked. my kids can reach the deadbolts and unlock them. sometimes they even go outside. so we put latch hooks on the screen doors up top, where they can't reach, and when my youngest was 1 1/2- 2 yrs old he knew to get a broom and use the handle to unlock it. or he figured out on his closet door that if he shakes it hard enough it pops out. usually he does this somehow quietly enough that we don't notice the closet is open until ALL the toys are out of the closet.

i couldn't imagine having a dck open the door and take off.
i also like to keep my big doors closed and locked so i don't get those annoying visitors who preach . one time my kids were right by the front door when they started knocking and ringing door bell. they literally did this for 10 minutes. i whispered to the kids to freeze! i said there is a monster at the door, do not move! good practice for being quiet and still, cause no one moved for the whole 10 minutes. HAHAHAHAHA...

[Zoe]

i also like to keep my big doors closed and locked so i don't get those annoying visitors who preach . one time my kids were right by the front door when they started knocking and ringing door bell. they literally did this for 10 minutes. i whispered to the kids to freeze! i said there is a monster at the door, do not move! good practice for being quiet and still, cause no one moved for the whole 10 minutes. HAHAHAHAHA...

::::::::::::That's awesomely awful!

[daycare]

I conduct fire drills here monthly. Just a good habit to form as well as I have to do one every 3 months and record it for LIC.

I found out after my first firedrill years ago that NONE of the kids including the 5 year old taht I had could unlock my front door at the time. They could undo the bottom, not the top. So I decided to go and buy an inter connecting emergency egress door. It unlocks in one motion from the inside, but you cannot open it from the outside unless you unlock it with a key.

This means that any of the DC kids could open the door from the inside at anytime no problem. So I had to go and buy a door chime so that I know when the door opens.

Also in CA if you have a large family DC you have to have one of these types of deadbolts for your door. I only have a small DC, but the thought of the kids not being able to unlock the front door bothered me.

My thought was if something happened to me I want to make sure they can open the door and get out......now they can

[PitterPatter]

that's how i feel. some home invasions will happen during the day when someone knows that it's only a female home and no males. i understand the reasoning behind unlocked doors, but at the same time, i just think for the safety of the children the doors must be locked. my kids can reach the deadbolts and unlock them. sometimes they even go outside. so we put latch hooks on the screen doors up top, where they can't reach, and when my youngest was 1 1/2- 2 yrs old he knew to get a broom and use the handle to unlock it. or he figured out on his closet door that if he shakes it hard enough it pops out. usually he does this somehow quietly enough that we don't notice the closet is open until ALL the toys are out of the closet.

i couldn't imagine having a dck open the door and take off.
i also like to keep my big doors closed and locked so i don't get those annoying visitors who preach . one time my kids were right by the front door when they started knocking and ringing door bell. they literally did this for 10 minutes. i whispered to the kids to freeze! i said there is a monster at the door, do not move! good practice for being quiet and still, cause no one moved for the whole 10 minutes. HAHAHAHAHA...

:: OMG that is so great! I almost want to steal that for myself but with my luck they would become afraid of monsters and I would be in trouble with DCM. I haven't had a DCK have a fear of monsters or evern really talk about them much.

[daycare]

:: OMG that is so great! I almost want to steal that for myself but with my luck they would become afraid of monsters and I would be in trouble with DCM. I haven't had a DCK have a fear of monsters or evern really talk about them much.

or better yet, fear those people because they think their monsters..... thats funny...

[broncomom1973]

I dont know if this would work or not but there's a door handle made by Shlage (spelling?) that I've been thinking about getting that allows you to keep the door unlocked from the inside but locked on the outside KWIM? It also has a keypad entry where you can give each individual parent their own access code and then "lock them out" during non daycare hours. It gives off a sort of "beep beep beep" sound when it's being unlocked but I'm not sure how loud it really is or whether or not you'd be able to hear it unless you were in the same room as the front door but just the idea of being able to keep my door locked to everyone else except my DC parents almost makes it worth the $300 smackers it would set me back. Just to add to it, you can choose to pay a $10 or so a month fee and set it up so it gives you reports of what access codes are punched in at what time which would eliminate my need for a sign in sheet. Im one of those that always carries my phone on my person at all times and so another feature it has is sending alerts to your smart phone when someone punches in their code so if I were in the backyard and someone came in and used their code it would alert me as to who it was.

Funny thing is that my hunny's family is always coming and going here also but use our key pad code on our garage to get in and I never really know who is coming or going so this is another reason why I want the front door keypad . I want to change the code to the garage and have them use the front door from now on and be able to see who is coming in even when we are not home

Not sure if this will help any of those out there that can't lock their doors or not but hopefully someone can find it useful.

We have these locks you are talking about. They are nice locks and work well. Prior to these, we had the Schlage finger recognition ones which you could use the same way (scan in parents fingerprints) but I cant remember how many total you could scan in..... I think it was around 5-8 different fingers. My dh has a carpet cleaning business and his fingertips are in pretty rough shape from all of the chemicals and heat he uses in his business, so he decided to get rid of those and got the keypads instead. I never thought about giving my parents a code to get in, but I know dh wouldnt go for that anyway, .

[dEHmom]

:: OMG that is so great! I almost want to steal that for myself but with my luck they would become afraid of monsters and I would be in trouble with DCM. I haven't had a DCK have a fear of monsters or evern really talk about them much.

it was my own kids at the time. i had a dcb sleeping. they are over the monster phase anyway. so i thought it was good practice.

[sharlan]

Here's one reason to keep your doors locked, if it's legal.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/-300527--.html

[nannyde]

Here's one reason to keep your doors locked, if it's legal.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/-300527--.html

There's a good one.



I think if something like that passed here we would put up a heck of a fight. It would be enough to get most providers up in arms.