Do your teens have locks on their doors?

[PurpleLily7]

Quick poll...are your teens allowed to lock their bedroom doors?

No, only lock is on the bathroom and we rarely use that. My ds has only just started shutting the bedroom door at 13 and my dd (10) has recently done this ( as I've been closing my door when in meetings during the day) I've always taught mine to knock before entering if a door is shut and do the same for them. I'd feel anxious if they had doors locked, especially of a night incase there was a fire or emergency and I couldn't get in.

No. Only lock is bathroom. None of the other rooms have locks. We live in a family house not student digs/bedsits. When their door is closed we always knock and enter when they say.

Glad to hear it talking. It's v scary to think what a difference a lock could have made.
And glad to hear that the lock thing is not a common- it just feels instinctively wrong to me.

No locks. I always knock

None of our bedroom doors have locks. Only the bathrooms/toilet do and they’re not often used.
Knock and wait is expected, and observed. The younger 2 shared a room until they were 14/15 anyway.
Privacy and respect has been equally expected and observed. We’ve had the odd issue here and there but nothing that meant we had to take drastic action, thankfully.

Absolutely not. Fire risk.

No, we won't be doing that, I would really worry about a fire or something. But we wouldn't just walk in, we've started knocking (10 and 12)

No, because good manners dictate that we knock on closed doors...

No. X

It's never occurred to me that people might have locks. We knock & wait.

We got new doors about 10 years ago and they all had locks and keys, so we have always used them. I don't see how its a fire hazard as the doors aren't locked all night or anything. My dc just turn the key if they are getting changed having a wank We knock before entering but i still feel more secure with a locked door. I removed the key from the youngest's door but when she turned 11 she asked for it and i gave it to her, no big deal.

@mbosnz one of my DC have been warned that if they ever slam the door again I’m removing it. I had the cries of what about my privacy! Told them if they don’t slam the door they’ve got nothing to worry about. The door slamming from a window open is excluded of course

DS asked about a lock once. I told him I wasn't going to put one on (but did step up measures to keep little sister out).

I put a bolt on my door when I was about 14 to stop my mum coming in, and DH did similar with booby-traps for siblings, so I predict Ds will do similar eventually. Currently we don't have locks on bathrooms as autistic ds2 liked locking himself in.

No, because there is only one of them so no younger siblings to invade privacy. If doors are closed in this house we knock and wait for an answer, works for all of us.

Nope, my DS doesn't even have a door because there wasnt one on his room when we moved in and we just left it. His room is round a corner anyway so nobody can see in when passing. We have a knock and wait rule for my teenage girls and the bathroom and shout are you decent? round the corner for DS. Works for us. We have a lock on the inside of our bedroom door which has been there from when we bought the house but we've never used it

No locks. In fact 16yo dd doesn’t even lock the bathroom door and people are always walking in on her with her trousers down. She just says sorreeeeeeee. Drives me mad.
It hasn’t ever occurred to me or them that locks would be necessary. We just knock if the door is closed. (Unless it’s the damned bathroom where we assume people will lock the door!!!)

None of us lock the bathroom unless there are guests in the house. If the door is closed there's someone in there, same for bedrooms, knock and wait.

My dd recently left home but no she didn't have a lock on her room door.

Supposedly lock on bathroom door but it's never worked and we simply had a system of if the door was properly closed it was treated as if it were locked.

Both of us have disabilities and actually it's safer we didn't use locks - both have POTs for example

I had an abusive dad and frankly would've benefited from a lock but we weren't allowed. Weren't supposed to lock bathroom door either but it got to a point for my safety I had to

No, we knock and wait to be asked in. It's a Victorian house, original handles etc and the spare bedroom does have an original lock, no idea why.
I laughed at the pp who said their child was lucky to have a door, I've been close to removing DD's door, before the constant slamming brings it off the hinges.

No locks, that is for house shares not families.

Privacy is an attitude I think, a lock is not necessary.