So, for a long while the door knobs to the two doors in our house (yes, we only have 2...bathroom and bedroom) :)..have been kind of broken. The bedroom one had gotten so bad that at times you literally could not get the door open. I kept asking the kids to just leave the door open, but inevitably someone was always stuck in the room. We temporarily fixed the problem by always having and old credit card handy to jimmy the door open. (Side note: My children now believe this is what credit cards are for. They have no idea they have anything to do with money. They think they are just for opening doors). There was even one evening where we all got locked in the room (the credit card only works from the outside, not the inside). Jeff came home from work and since he never carries a key we have to let him in...but we were all stuck in the room and he rang the doorbell forever and there was nothing we could do. He finally had to come around to the back of the house and come in through the window and open the door with his strong man arms. :)
Well, at night the broken door turned out to be not so bad because if the door got closed, there was no chance of little children trying to escape. We would just make sure we got it open before we went to bed in case they really needed to get out.
So, this leads me to the results of our unknown experiment. Jeff and the boys decided to finally fix the door knobs. This is the funny part. They know very well that they can open the door because they helped Jeff fix it and they open it all day long. But I think they were really conditioned to believe that they can't open the door at night because they haven't even attempted to touch the door once we turn off the light and leave the room. So I guess Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning really does work. I challenge you all to try it....haha
5 comments:
Sneaky, sneaky mom! You are brilliant!
Nice to have the door fixed, thought, right?
How are you feeling?
Nice! I remember when we first transitioned Kaia to a big girl bed; for a long time, she would call for me to come get her in the morning even though she could get out by herself. I think she was just so used to me getting her from her crib. Now the nice thing is that both kids come and join me for snuggle/sleep time in the morning when they wake up.
Ur great for lasting that long w/out going out and buying new door knobs. It's so cute how the boys helped out daddy fix it. Soon Jeff won't have to do anything like that around the house.
So glad Jeff was able to rescue you guys. How long were you in there for? I just have this vision of all 4 of you hanging out counting time and waiting for daddy to come home and save you. Glad you were able to fix the doors. That's definately going to be a great story for future reminiscing (sp?) LOL.
Luckily it was toward the end of the day and we were only in there like a half hour. But Jeff rang the door bell like 10 times...really long rings...I don't know if he thought we were kidnapped or playing a joke on him, but it took him a while to come around to the back window. haha
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