Funny and scary, all at the same time.

I would say it's time to pay more attention. You said yourself sometimes you don't pay attention. With kids you need to try to pay attention all the time. && if this has been going on for months now, why havn't you tried to have locks put up high on the door? Every toddler/child will try to escape out the front door. Heck my daughter bolted on me once. Things happen, we parents make mistakes, but to keep letting it happen is a problem. I would look into having someone help you put some locks/latches up high on the door. && I would never say this isn't a huge deal because it is a huge deal. Even if the child does stay in the yard, something can still happen. A child should never be outside alone. Even if for a few seconds! && now a days people could even call the cops && report this. Our neighbor has got a warning that if her 6 year old is ever outside again alone on front porch or not without an adult that the next time they would pick the child up && then the mom would have to go to parenting classes to get her daughter back. So it's never ok in my eyes or by some law inforcements && there are good reasons for that. So I don't see nothing funny about it... && I'm not looking down on you, my daughter has also bolted out the front door, but I learned from my first mistake && took action && had locks put up. SO now if she wants to go outside, she has to ask. Good luck.

I am lucky with my two year old in that she never bothers too much with going outside unless her brothers go out. No way does she ever want to play outside on her own. I mean our back garden is all fenced in and she could never reach the bolt on the gate to get out, so she could play quite safe out there but she has no interest at all, the front door leads onto a main road so it is always locked and the key put up out of the way. But, saying this, the other day it was time to go and fetch her brothers from school and just as we were getting ready to go the teletubbies came on tv. She wanted to stay and watch it, well her 16 year old brother was in and he said she could stay with him if she wanted, I asked her, she said yes. So I went off to get the other two, well when I got back she was breaking her heart, I said to my oldest son "what's up with her" and he said that when teletubbies ended, she put her shoes on and her coat and went off out the back door, now my son was on his laptop and so did not notice her go at first then he heard the back door shut, so he ran out after her and she was sneaking around the back of the shed where it would appear there was a gap that she knew she could squeeze through!! I did not know this!! When my son asked her what she was doing, she announced that she was going to find me so he had to carry her back in and then lock the door!!! Well we have now fixed the gap so there is no way she can get through it now!

You have very adventurous children and they seem to be very cable of doing things beyond their years. This is amazing. But it sounds like it is time for a security knob that children can't open.

It is scary my friend, you will be blamed if anything happens to this kid. Mind you he is your responsibility for 20 long years. I know a child who opened the hot water tap in the bathtub and got on to it. His hip downwards was burnt as the water was so hot. The mother screamed and cried but the doctors blasted her and it became a police case. Pray to God that he should help you to take care of these kids. It is tough no doubt about it. You loose your temper and you want to thrash him up, but cant help you love your baby and no harm should come to him. All the best and may God bless you and your kids to have happy life.

I have a friend that has the same problem i babysit for her and her three year old daughter does it to one time she got out and ended up at the end of the block I told her that he needs to get better locks or child locks on the door or put a child gate up at the door make it far enough so that if you lean over it you can get to it but not your son im am 100% sure he will be upset but for his own safety i dont think you would mind there a lot of things online that you can find that you can buy to help with that since my friend has done it she knows she has to ask if she can go out and if we say no she waits till some one takes her out but it took almost 6 months for her to accept it let me know how things go

Kids as they say! One of my nephew does this. He plays with our german shepherd caesar till the dog bounces back at him. My 2 yr old nephew is not scared of the 3 yr old dog. :) Quite funny! He constantly pulls caesar's tail and caesar goes to him and hugs him! But my cousin is scared about this :(

I would suggest a chain on the door where the toddler can't reach it, or some sort of extra lock on the screen door that he can't reach. If your child gets out and you don't realize it and then he wanders off and you need to call the police they can actually charge you with child neglect. Its not uncommon for a toddler to hit the door while mom's attention is elsewhere, and I'm sure its happened to most of us, myself included and I consider myself to be a pretty over protective parent, but the police are sometimes very firm on this point. Just like you wouldn't leave a baby or toddler in a bath unattended, you shouldn't let them have easy access to the outside.

my eldest daughter will be turning 3 next month and she is always the one giving me the fits...lately whenever it rains i really have to run downstairs and look for her because she likes to bathe in the rain and its very dangerous in our neighborhood when it rains coz it floods easily and the water can get very high very quickly...she does this everytime even at nights...the last time she was wet and running around it was like 11pm i was really shocked.

for some reason kids, like out side my grand baby love out doors but its so danger out there he, can get into so much unattended the stangest thing is he has done was his mother, put him in the baby bed and she was going to take the trash out when she, return he was setting on the floor saying to his mother ma ,ma looking at a book smiling he had climbed out of that bed he is so busy never still he is 15 months old and all over the place you have to watch them every second i can see why they charge so much for day care if all kids is as busy doing the day as he is then the one who is keeping them has there hands filled.

That is crazy and scary at the same time. I guess you have two on your hands who will give you a full-time job being scared and amused. Cheers!!

These are the emotions of the children some time we do not understand and take it casually. Some time they had some thing to tell but we ignore and remains in their memory.Their little actions we like and feel happy. I think if he is trying to push the door to go you, you should check it what is their outside what he want to tell you may it be some thing important for you.

even i have a son of 2 years old and i know at this age they walk and my son also use to try opening the door before but now he really does it very well and it had happened that once he opened the door and gone on the stairs out and i was in the bathroom and just heard his voice out and i have to just come out running and take him in at that time i use to just close the door and i was locking it with the keys and from then i just lock the door with the keys everytime without fail and then do all my other work. it was the first time he opened the door and we were just surprised that he could do it so very well. this childrens what they discover and when is really a surprise and we cant just make out.

i have no kid. but i find it crazy when they pee anywhere they wwnt to. (o.O)