alt Hacker NewsI need a lock like this to prevent my hyper active toddler from leaving the house through the front door.
It'll be strange to replace my front door with a guillotine slider, but I'm willing to try about anything since I found him half a block away playing in a puddle last week.
I literally just tried to send one text message. Poof he was gone.
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Check out a lock like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07DR9CMGZ
Mount it near the top of the door, out of reach of the small escape artist.
I had exactly the same problem and this solved it.
I have this problem, but I just lock the front door.
You could just install one of those chain things so the door won’t open more than inch. The toddler isn’t tall enough to reach it. There’s non chain ones too, you see them in hotels, a little metal thing you flap open.
I gave my parents a godawful scare as a five year old when I escaped from my grandmother’s house and went to my aunt’s house five blocks away.
I would not want to parent myself. Good kid, generally, so you let your guard down, but when I did go wild it was stuff like that.