Do your children (teens) sleep with the door open?

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This has just occurred to me whilst lying here, pondering getting up. Our children have always slept with the door open. This stems from when they were little & needed to get up during the night; ease of access to toilet, etc.
However I’ve just realised that they still have their doors open now they are teens. A few times my daughter’s door has closed over & she’s asked me to open it fully before she goes to sleep.

is this the same in your household?

Nope. Doors always shut and have been since they were little. They have always had the ability to open them since being toddlers.

All doors closed here due to cats

Usually slightly open due to cats. If they can't get in, they wreck the carpet trying. We have ours open too for the same reason.

Always closed to keep out light and sound. This has been the same the kids entire lives. The fore safety aspect is a bonus I hadn’t thought of.

This. Underwent fire Marshall duty at work and the videos demonstrating the fire ripping through houses where doors are left open vs. doors closed will stay with me forever. Now have a routine of closing all doors at bed time!

We keep them shut, sometimes we do have to shut the kids doors once they are asleep as they’ve forgot to shut them, it could literally save lives in a house fire.

If I don’t shut my 3 year olds bedroom door they get up and shut it and go back to bed

Not a chance.

they don’t want me to see whatever it is they do in their bedrooms (older teenage boys)

I shut all the doors in the house when I go to bed as a fire safety thing. DC stopped sleeping with their doors open when they were around 9/10.

Saw a fire service video when DD1 was small that showed the consequences of not shutting doors if fire breaks out - all doors shut at night ever since!

So many cats!!!! 🐈

Totally get the fire risk aspect - BUT there’s so way my youngest would allow the door closed. He’d be very upset. Maybe when older and we can explain. I also like the door open so I can hear them and they can get to me if worried in the night. Mine and younger though and not yet teens

I know And how many of them influence the doors open/doors shut !

DD has her door tightly shut others Female Cat goes in and gently paws her/bites her awake
MaleCat stays downstairs
All doors open except DD door

My dc have their doors shut and always have. My bedroom door is usually open or ajar.

Interestingly though when we were fostering a friend's cat for a while it was the opposite way round