houdini

here's an idea for all you preschool teachers out there:  why don't you give your charges a puzzle with all different kinds of locks for them to learn how to bust through? i'm talking sliding bar locks, twist locks, hook-and-eye locks, sliding chain locks – the works. 

WTF?!

our four-year-old doesn't need any help disarming locks, thanks. this is the child we nicknamed "houdini" at age two when she figured out how to unlatch the carabiner-style gate hooks. we had to resort to padlocking each of our three backyard gates to keep her penned up. it took this child 20 minutes to figure out how to pop the fridge lock we installed (i had more trouble with it than her). when we moved into our new house, we had to replace the flip locks on the front and back doors because she kept "helping" us open them (the new locks are keyed, natch). 

"next year maybe they teach them safe cracking," the handsome man said. i'm hoping for hot-wiring; probably more job opportunities in that. 

sheesh.