Our utility room is an outer room that connects to the front porch and the garage. I was switching laundry only to find out my 2 year old had locked the door! Yep, the one door we don't have a key to. Great.. She was unable to figure out how to unlock it. So M. had to smash the door handle off with a brick. Really thankful I was able to get back inside without breaking the glass. Both my girls were just sitting in front of the door.
Has anyone else ever been locked out?
It was the scariest thing I've been through as a parent so far.
My seven yr old accidently locked me out of a cabin we were staying in, I sat by the campfire and he went to sleep. When I tried to get in I realized I was locked out, I knocked, banged and yelled and finally had to get a manager to let me in. I guess he was too worn out from hiking and swimming to wake up!!
Yes. But we have spare keys with neighbors, etc. I've also locked my child in my car (if that happens, call 911 and someone will help you out). When I was a toddler, I locked my mom out of the car and more than once had to be shoved through a bathroom window.
Yes - It's a bother.
We keep a key hidden in the back yard for just such an emergency.
Eh, it happens. My eldest daughter locked my MIL out of the house just after learning to walk. She then proceeded to empty her diaper bag, every toy from every container, pulled cushions off of couches, took photo frames off tables and display areas, and un-potted every plant on that floor. It only took her the 15-20 minutes that my MIL was locked out.
I think every single one of my MIL's grandchildren has locked her out of her house at some point when she went to get the mail and she thought they were sleeping.
My BFF's children each locked her out when they were toddlers. She called the fire department to chop down her doors. Her children thought it was great fun.
That has never happened to me. But you did remind me of something that happened to my sister, when her son was very young. She had ran a bathtub full of water and ran in the other room to get a towel. The baby ran into the bathroom when she wasn't in there, and shut the door. Then he opened a drawer, which was right next to the door. When the drawer was open, it blocked the door from opening. She could not get in the bathroom, and there was her baby next to a whole bathtub full of running water. It took her forever to tell him how to shut the drawer so she could come in. She never did that again, and made sure he couldn't open that drawer anymore too.
I locked an infant in my car in the middle of summer! He was in the backseat in a car seat, of course, I got out of the front seat, locked the door and closed it and went around to the other side to open it and get him out of the back. As soon as I pushed my door closed, I realized the keys were still inside. I panicked. It was over 100 degrees! I couldn't wait for paramedics. A guy came by with a pocket knife and we literally cut the back window out of the car to get the baby out! Talk about hysterical! It wasn't even my baby!
I was showing a friend my new hot tub on our deck and my friend shut the sliding glass door locking my infant inside the house. I was frantic even though I knew she was safe in her crib. Luckily my mom was home and brought the spare key over. I was only locked out for about 5 minutes but it was a long 5 minutes. To this day I never go outside without my keys.
Yup, but it happened in the library. My oldest son locked himself into a utility room and I was frantic until they got him out. I remember I had a baby in a sling, so he must have been around 4 years old at the time. There were so many things in there that could have killed him!
That is scary. I had one of my daycare kids flip the lock on the bathroom door as she closed it. No one else was in the bathroom, but the "could have"s scared me at the time. I took the opportunity, having had to remove the knob to get the door open, to switch the knob for a non-locking one on a closet. The closet's lock is now taped over so that it cannot be locked accidentally either.
I hope you take the opportunity to replace the knob with a new one, so that you will have a key and can keep a spare safely hidden out there in case of a repeat performance. I also hope you've explained to both of your kids how dangerous locking doors is and show them how to unlock them too.
Glad everyone made it through this safely!
I had to hoist my kindergartner up into the kitchen window from the deck one time. I was lucky that window was unlocked, too, or we would have had to wait all day until Daddy came home to get in. That wouldn't have been too big a deal, but I had a car full of groceries.
I locked myself out right after moving to a new house in a new city. I had no idea where anything was, what my husband's phone number was, or any of the neighbors around me. I walked all around the house trying every door, and found that one of the sliding doors was actually open. Whew! First thing, I locked it - second thing, I got my husband's phone number and put it in my pocketbook!
Dawn
Yes. once that happened, we got the key code box installed so that we input a code to open the garage doors and come inside.
However, the door from my garage to laundry room will accidently get locked and I am locked out that way. It is not glass, it is a standard door. I just use a credit card to break in. Pretty sad.. so easy to break into my own house.
I suggest everyone have dead bolts, it is TOO easy to get in a door without one.
Happened to me too! We walked to the library and I left the door unlocked only for my son to be responsible and lock it. I was breastfeeding, so lucky for the baby. It wasn't too hot out either, but it was going to be 5 hours until my husband returned home. So I called and he got permission to stop his roofing crew and come home. And then my son found the sliding door unlocked and I felt so silly calling my husband back and saying "Never mind, I got in!" Yea...the crew was already to happy to leave work for the day...oppps!
we were stationed in Germany when my oldest was about 2. the outer door knobs dont turn. you have to have a key to unlock the door, much like a hotel door. i was running up and downstairs doing laundry (a theme here! laundry is the culprit) and had the door propped open. my daughter managed to move the prop and the door shut. i couldn't get her to open. i don't speak German and had only been in-country a couple of weeks so didn't know the neighbors. A nice man found a ladder and crawled up onto the balcony and managed to open the door (which again are different so wasn't a matter of jiggling a sliding door). He got in and opened the front door. of course, my daughter was fine and didn't even realize there was a problem!
yeah a few times... then i get to enjoy the fun of climbing the fence and trying not to fall over the barbeque grill thats on the other side to get the door key out of my garage and then climbing back over
my neibors have spare keys to our house but are rarely home when we need them.. we have their spare keys, which is a good thing because there kids have come over quite a few times after school when they got home and realized they forgot their house keys
Yup... We went for our family walk one nice fall evening and when we returned, we found out that my daughter had locked the door before we left. We had to go around and open the back bedroom window, have her crawl through and then we had to explain to her how to UNlock the door she had figured out how to lock! It was funny only because we didn't have to worry about a child being stuck inside unsupervised.
I've had nothing that bad, though I remember my mom standing on the roof of the car so she could break our window and let us all into the house.
Closest things was, we have good friends who were without power for over a week after Hurricane Sandy. One night we were out of town, and I invited them to stay at our place and enjoy the benefits of heat, electricity, etc. This all happened in such a rush, I never brought my spare key -- just gave them mine. They left early the next morning b/c their son wound up being allergic to our cat. I got home that night to find my son and me completely locked out, with them staying 45 minutes away. I got the key from them, but, long night.
Oh my goodness, yes! My son locked me out of the car once, in our own front yard! I told my husband and he told me to go into the house and get the spares. Um, my house keys? Yeah, in the car.
Luckily, with some specific instructions, my two-year-old was able to figure out how to unlock the door for me, and I learned a lesson about always taking at least one set of keys (either car or house!) with me! ^_^
Can't say that this has happened to me. Whew!!
Ouch!! That would be scary!! I take it that room does not have a door to the outside so that you could have gone to the front door?? If there is no other door to that room - I would take it off it's hinges!! :) LOL!!
I'm really sorry that happened to you!!!
