Locking a child s bedroom door is a violation of many fire codes and can be a pretty big red flag for child protective services.
Wa6s of keeping child in room without locking the door.
If you re in your room and you want privacy barricade your door by wedging a chair under the door knob or pushing a piece of furniture in front of it.
In a reddit thread earlier this year a poster questioned whether his family really deserved child services investigating the locks on their children s doors after all they were just bolted.
The responses were plentiful one a sympathetic correctional officer oh sorry parent wrote you have to protect your kids in unconventional ways sometime because kids do weird stuff and no house no.
Keeping your autistic child safe isn t just about keeping him in you also need to keep him or her protected while inside.
The most common are built right into the knob or handle of your door.
Locking a bedroom door does not.
If your bedroom has one of these pocket doors the best way to lock them may be a hook lock.
These locks are metal hooks that come out of the door and latch onto a bar in the frame.
That means locking doors from the outside when a room is empty.
And yet with a particularly determined child one that is particularly determined to not stay in bed specifically it may be necessary to restrict their ability to leave the room at least for a little while.
This is only helpful if you re actually in your room when someone tries to barge in but it will prevent them from being able to do it.