Slamming doors help

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I am really about to lose my mind with this. Ds 2.5 is obsessed with closing and opening doors at the moment. But when he closes them he slams them hard and today he slammed our kitchen door (which is glass) hard enough I honestly thought he'd cracked it.

I am at him about this All. The. Time. We've had endless talks about why we don't close the doors, how he gets stuck in the room, how his fingers could get caught, how the dog gets scared of the big bang, simply telling him no and moving him away. Absolutely nothing seems to sink in and I'm so worried he's actually going to hurt himself/ the dog/ break the glass at some point and I just don't know what else to try. 99% of the time he's so good and listens pretty well but this is just chronic. What else can I try??

A door slam stopper thing I had them when dd was little basically a foam thing that goes over the top stops the door from slamming

Put a folded tea towel over the doors he slams, keep reminding him to close them carefully. If he doesn't get an interesting response, ie the door won't slam, he may lose interest.

Yeah as above you can get foam things to prevent the door actually closing. If you need to be able to keep him out of a room you could add a stair gate too.

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Found it!

I used these of course dd then chose to put a metal tin over her head and charge the door to make the bang noise but she went through university so no harm done

You can get C-shaped bits of foam to put near the top of the door which will stop it slamming and/or fingers getting caught. Cheaper and easier than door stops for all doors (which your DC would just remove anyway). I'm sensitive to slamming noises so feel your pain

Or loop a scarf or pair of tights or similar around the door handles to prevent the door shutting. Fasten with a knot so he can't remove it.

Install a hook high up so the doors are held open and only the adults can shut doors if they need to. Sometimes you have to realise when you’re fighting a losing battle at certain ages and stages. Fix the problem because you can’t fix what he’s doing right now.

We just looped a pull up nappy around the door handle to stop all our doors slamming during this phase. When the exciting noise stopped happening, DS quickly lost interest.

So I'm currently living with my parents in their house and they have point blank refused any level of childproofing as they don't like the look of it. Obviously it's their house so I've just been trying my best to with with ds on it. To me just childproofing a little, especially those temporary things like door jams just would save so much hassle.

They are happy to live with doors slamming to the point of nearly shattering the glass panels?

if the door opens out to a wall a hook snib high up would solve the problem easily and would look absolutely fine.

Otherwise everyone just has to live with it. Maybe they’ll change their mind when the glass finally shatters or your child slams his or someone’s fingers in the door.

Putting aesthetics over safety is odd but I guess it happens. Perhaps you could show them a quote for replacing all the glazing in the door and they might think some little white or black bits of foam suddenly dont look too terrible