Kitchen cupboard child locks

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Where's the best place to buy these?

They must be self-adhesive and not screw fixing.

The cheapest I can find are £3.70 EACH, and I need 12 of them

do yo really need all 12...

can you not have a cupboard with all the unbreakable plastic stuff in?

We only locked cupboards that caused concern.

We moved glasswhere up
We moved chemicals out

I think we ended up locking 1 drawer (sharp knives) with DTDs. A stair gate at the kitchen door meant they were never in the kitchen alone.

With DD3 we lock 2 cupboards with cable ties ATM - although they will have to be removed soon when she works out how they wwork. That si dependant on hte design of the handles though.

TBH I wouldn't trust many of the adhesive ones (the fridge locks are OK) but they will leave a long lasting sticky mes IMO.

this is similar to teh locks we have on the changing cupboard which I love. you have to have the right handles though.

this looks good

we also have this which is goiod functionally but a bit fiddly.

All these options bepend on your handle design though.

We swiftly got rid of most of the child locks as they drove us mad. They kept getting stuck. The ones that were reasonably easy to open were so easy that DS sauntered over and opened them too.

I put pots and pans, tupperware etc in the cupboards that DS could access and moved other stuff away. Much easier.

The last one that SMS linked to was the one we had on the stairgate once DD figured out how to open the stairgate. It was very good but fiddly as you really have to use 2 hands.

we never used them either - when the kids were too young to be trusted they weren't really out of sight. I don't envy anyone still at that stage though...hard work! but agree with the others move contents around as much as you can rather than use locks

We have 16 base cabinets and no wall cupboards at all (strange kitchen!!), and have moved all the unbreakables into 4 cupboards for my DD to open and play in.

That leaves 12 cupboards containing breakables, cleaning stuff, etc.

My DD is never actually in the kitchen unattended, but it is making things very difficult constantly having to distract her away from the bleach!

Thanks for the links.

Oh, that is awkward then.

In that case, these are the type to avoid if possible. I cannot remember if we had the mothercare ones, but they were this kind. If I forgot about the lock and just pulled the cupboard open, then they would get stuck and I had to poke a finger into the gap and wiggle about a bit. They were a real nightmare.

I used to lock the kitchen door (still do sometimes).

Thanks for that kinder, will avoid those then

obviously it's your choice and you know DD best but it's worth bearing in mind that if you lock the cupboards then there is the danger of all cupboards becoming "forbidden fruit" for a long time. Short term gain = long term pain!

We didn't use cupboard locks and used the No, and remove technique. Very wearing for a short while. After a month or so he got the message. He now, months later at 18 months, only goes to his allowed cupboard (pans/tuppaware) and when we go and stay anywhere he doesn't show any interest in people's kitchen cupboards. On the other hand my neice and nephew had their cupboards locked from the word go. It is a PITA being in their kitchen and the two children STILL head straight for cupboards whenever we are all at my parents - it drives my parents bonkers! Now maybe it is just luck, but I would think seriously about not locking them - how often is your DD in the kitchen unattended anyway?!

www.babysecurity.co.uk/ has a big selection

We have locks on all hazardous cupboards
Don't have them on the drawers but probably should do
No issues with forbidden fruit here

TY for hte link TheBlonde. I have just found a product which I have been thinking for ages "I wonder if I can get something to stop DD3 switching off the computer at the socket"...and I have just found it

We have an elastic band on the bleach cupboard. (It's quite a strong elastic band).
A piece of string and a drawing pin on the slightly-out-of-sight cupboard with serving bowls in it. Only pin it shut when I'm distracted and dd is on a mission. I tie the dogfood cupboard shut with a bit of ribbon because otherwise dd feeds the dog 18 times a day.

Cheap as chips!

we find he opens cupboards and drawers and could slam his fingers in them, do they not need locking for that reason rather than what's in them?

I found that dd learned not to slam her fingers in drawers and cupboards amazingly quickly when left to get on with it.
[harsh mummy emoticon].

I bought loads of different locks a while back and never ended up using any of them.Have allsorts including drawer,cupboard,oven and fridge locks.
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Don't want much for them.