Ds losing his keys

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Please can someone tell me what I can do about 17yo ds repeatedly losing his keys.

I’m really funny about security as it is as we’ve had a lot of theft round here.

DS repeatedly keeps leaving his keys at his friend’s houses or his girlfriend’s house. Only he doesn’t actually remember where he left them, they just turn up there. He loses them round the house and ends up having to search for them and he doesn’t remember if he left them at someone’s house/the gym/on the bus.

Anyone can lose things occasionally, but it’s week in week out. It happens e every single week without fail. They turn up in various places. Either at someone’s house or in a random bag or pocket or under his bed.

I’ve threatened to take his keys, he’s even been left locked out because we’ve been out.

We have a bowl thing where the house keys so so it really shouldn’t be difficult.

I wouldn’t allow him to take a set with, he’ll have to time getting back for when there’s someone else to let him in!
or, get an AirTag for them!

Key safe! My stepdaughter has adhd and loses everything. We have a keysafe on the side of the house. She uses key and puts it back immediately. Hence it can't get lost!

AirTag and key safe

This!!

The problem is he’s at college totally different days and times and he does football training until very late so often gets home after we are in bed.

Id love to just take them off him but I cannot see how it could work.

If we had a key safe I know for a fact that he wouldn’t put them back.

He is absolutely terrible at this sort of thing.

We keep a key hidden outside for the teens. They aren’t allowed to take a key away from the house. DSS cos he’s a drip and DD because she never has pockets or a bag.

I was hopeless with keys too but when I had my own house, I put the key bowl under the spot where I instinctively dropped my keys and 90% of the time they would be there.

Then dh put a lovely key holder in a sensible and logical spot and I spent 6 months hunting for missing keys until I realised that I needed to use my system, and not try to fit into his. My brain just doesn’t work that way.

We tried a pretty lidded box for a while and that extra step defeated me too. Has to be an open receptacle!

My excuse is adhd. He might just be young yet but I would encourage him to find his own solution or system. (My ds has his keys on an extendable line so they spring back to his pocket)

Key safe - or you could try Retractable key rings with it being cliped onto a bag or belt and never getting taken off.

Mind did a mix of retactable key rings - and landyard retactable lines - but DD1 still lost one set - so ha dto change the locks - which was straight forward to lock type.

DS's school back and laptop are air tagged and we have a hidden key safe so the key never gets taken away from (or into) the house.

Could you consider getting a key pad entry unit fitted to your door?

Then he doesn't get to do what he wants. He can do football when he doesn't lose his keys

My eldest dc was exactly the same! An AirTag helped. He’s 20 now, living away from home and has his own car and generally better at not losing keys. He was always breaking mobile phones, too. Air pods, well we gave up on them! Used to drive me nuts. I reckon there are about 50 of our front door keys dotted around this town.

We tried this but ds would lose his key, take the spare ad infinitum!

Put a gps key fob on them

We got our son an AirTag which has really helped