To think if a door is closed when you go through you close it yourself

[girlwhowearsglasses]

And vice versa!

I have spent this weekend alternatively freezing cold and opening and closing doors that have been left open or closed when DP, DSs 1, 2, 3 go though and not reinstate the door to how it was!

To explain: some of this is leaving the back door open when going in and out - our kitchen is in effect a corridor that you go through to get outside - and it’s annoying enough to have three kids, and a grown up running past you all the time to get in and out!

Also we have a dog who is very good, but if you leave the pet gate open he will go in the kitchen and see what he can find to —steal— eat.

Yesterday dP left the pet gate open and was surprised —annoyed at the dog— when the dog ate his nice cheese.

Aibu to think they all have some kind of awareness module missing from their brains!

Yes also switching lights off behind them, I follow switching every light in the whole house off.

I feel your pain. DH and I spend an extraordinary amount of time shouting at the kids to shut the living room/kitchen/porch/bedroom/ front door. Surely by now they must be sick to death of having to stop, turn around, go back the way they came, close the door and then continue on to where they were heading?!?!. Every journey through the house is doubled due to them being called back to "shut the bloody door!!!"

We have seriously considered those automatic door closers that you see a lot in public buildings and offices.

I feel your pain! I'm constantly having a go at DP and DSS's for leaving doors/baby gates open and light switches on! (the lights are the biggest piss take!) Youngest SS has a habit of turning lights on in every room he goes into even if its already light ('daylight is free!' constantly leaves my mouth) We have a new puppy too so door shutting is a major issue.
I always make a big fuss and bitch when I go upstairs and find one of them has left the bathroom door open, with the light unnecessarily on and my DS (2yo) has managed to get up there (baby gate not closed) and has poured bottles of shower gel etc all over the floor. I go find the culprit (usually SS 2 - 10yo) and make him clean up the mess and stand there waiting for him to finish and turn light off, shut door and I still have to remind him! I'm like 'mate, the reason your doing this is because you forgot to do that in the first place so don't forget now!'
Honestly, doors and light switches are the bane of my life! I thought about removing bulbs during the day but decided i shouldn't as I'd never put them back in for the grace of saving money haha

I swear I could have written this post myself.

Me too. I have started calling them back to shut the door....I make them
traipse back from wherever they are. Am hoping they will eventually learn!

@wheresmyphone They don't. They never learn.
You will never stop it. The best we can hope for is revenge when they have their own homes. I can't wait to visit my children when they are adults and walk through their houses turning on every light and opening every door wide. Over and over again.

I agree. I can't seem to make anyone understand it here either. DH in particular will also walk into a room I'm in and turn on additional lights without asking. If I wanted all the lights on, they'd be on.

Aha not just me then. It’s so bloody cold and DP in a t shirt cos he is doing stuff. Brrrrr

DH and DSD are terrible with this. I call them back to shut the door every single time.

I am with you. DH and DD seem quite happy to sit with the living room door open even though a right draught comes through there.

Mind you DH probably thinks the same about me and lights. I often leave them on and then he switches them off and I put them on again....

Doors. Cupboard doors. Light switches. Also looking for stuff. I look in a drawer or a basket and put that thing back, including anything I have disturbed. My ex and to some extent dc will root through leavd everything half hanging out and just walk off.