S/O of How do you feel about teens locking bedroom doors? Thread. Locks on bedroom doors

[Meriweather]

All bedroom (and bathroom) doors have locks with the round hole, so they can be opened if needed.
Our house came that way

 

[Ellie008]

house I grew up in - only the bathroom door had a lock.
my first house - only the bathrooms had locks.
my current house - only the bathrooms had locks, but we swapped knobs so now the master bath doesn't have a lock, but the master bedroom does. This way the kids can't walk in on me. Kids haven't asked for locks, but I would consider it if they asked.

 

[nene0182]

Locks, but we can't lock them because we don't have keys, LOL. This house was built in 1934 and the bedroom door locks take skeleton keys.

Same issue here but our house was built in 1921. Plus most of the locks have been painted over multiple times and don’t work right. It’s not been an issue in our house.

 

[mrs. magoo]

The house was built in 1940 and the doors have locks but require a skeleton key that no one knows where it is. It would never occur to me to lock the door.

 

[fla4fun]

Every house I have lived in has had locks on the bedroom doors. In fact, I have only known one family who did not have locks on the bedroom doors and the house was built in the 1920’s. I didn’t realize so many people don’t have locks on them.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

My room and my cousin's room have locks on the door. They're newer knobs that had to be replaced at some point in the past and they're the kind you can stick a pin in the hole to unlock. Same with the downstairs bathroom. Never used to lock it, but if you don't the two-year-old tends to follow you in and ask over and over, "you going pee pee?" while you're trying to do your business.

 

[BrianL]

We alwyas had those basic little twisty locks on the doors, but half of them didn't work. Locking our doors or even closing them wasn't a "thing" very much when I was growing up. I live in that smae house now and all the doors have the push button locks, but since I live alone they are not used, nor do I know if they work. I do not close the door to my bedroom when I sleep or I'd never hear the end of it from the cat!

 

[TippyThomas]

None of the bedrooms have locks in my home.

 

[Micca]

I don't think I've ever lived in a house with bedroom door locks. We don't close the bedroom door, there's two humans and two cats here. Works out better for everyone

 

[LYSE]

Privacy locks everywhere or just bathrooms and master is fine with me.

No room should have a keyed lock outside of special circumstances/use.

 

[dez1978]

All of our bedrooms and bathrooms have locks. Our bedroom door is prob the only one where the lock gets used much tho. And that doesn't get used as much as we'd like it to lol

 

[Minnesota!]

The room my office is in has a lock on it - from the inside. This was my bedroom when I was growing up and I had a brother that liked to steal. So, that is still leftover from when my parents lived here. Otherwise, other bedroom on this level does not have a lock and my bedroom doesn't have a door, so.... no locks.

 

[soccerdad72]

Just the master bedroom (and the bathrooms) here.

 

[aprilgail]

My bedroom door has a lock on it and when my daughter switched bedrooms at around 9 I put a lock on her bedroom door too because grandma had a habit of opening her door without knocking and that is just rude so I put a lock on it to force knock before entering!

 

[disneychrista]

My youngest daughter put a key lock on her bedroom door because her sister would go into her room and snoop.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I know at my mom's traditional keys could be used for the doors that had locks on them. IIRC both bathrooms and all 3 bedrooms had keys (built in the 1960s).

I honestly don't remember if our rental house (built in 2006) had locks.

Our home was built (in 2014) with locks on all 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. They are however not traditional keys, it's like a thin slot key. The builder left some of those keys on the top of the door frames of some of the rooms. I don't know if they left keys for every room though.

 

[Colleen27]

We have a lock on the master bedroom, just because it was there when we moved in. One bathroom has a working lock, one has an original-to-the house lock that doesn't work and doesn't use a standard template so isn't easily replaced.

Our last house was creepy - the master, which was the only room with an en suite bathroom, had a lock... but it was on backwards, so you could lock someone in.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

Locks on all doors leading to spaces that should be private.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Every family is different, I did allow them but locks would draw extra scrutiny since it was uncommon. I can see reasons for both sides but if I noticed a locked door with off behavior, silence or anything else it would trigger intervention, the more sour the mood of the person on the other side of the door the more likely I'd put on my flame suit and step into the fire. Sometimes when my kids would retreat I'd bring lunch or a laptop, knock and sit in their space just so they knew I was paying attention and was there for them in their world. Sometimes they just wanted privacy and that was ok too, to me it wasn't hard to tell the difference between a day of tears vs a day of my daughter trying on outfits or my son needing space because his team lost the last LAX game. No-one has an instruction manual we're all just doing our best and praying.

 

[SueInBoston]

Never had locks on bedroom doors while kids were growing up. when I remodeled and replaced all doors with lock 4 years ago. Old Kid's bedroom is now guest room, thought it would be a good option for guests.