My three yr old wont stay out of the fridge. Child proof locks dont work. Have any suggestion?
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Wow, some people and their "advice". Jeesh! A 3 year old is trying to be independent, save the spanking for something major! I bought a child proof latch from Lowe's. I'm not sure what kind you were using that didn't work. This one is just a Safety First I think. It's only adhesive so I doubted that it would really stick, but it does. It has a buckle on the side. My husband and I have a bad habit of pulling on the door without unlatching it and it does not budge. I also saw one on www.onestepahead.com call a lock release fridge latch for $5.95. Good luck!
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Put it where he can not reach it...otherwise, I dont know, I have tile floors and hate to think of my child braking something in there, so this is something Ill have to worry aobut soon......
Discipline, take the parent role in the parent-child relationship. What if your child was getting into a drawer full of matches or lighters? What if your child was opening the front door and running into the street every time you weren't looking? Your child needs to learn that when the parent says no, it means no. You cannot buy protective latches for the problems in life. Teach your children to respect your decisions. u can buy the fridges with small number locks, or the ones with the diginumber panel. if you dont want to buy a new fridge, the bestway is to raise the child lock so the kid wont reach it or keep the food the child opens the fridge for out of reach
This may be a little weird, but this is what i had to do. Tie the handle to the fridge door to the freezer door will a good peice of wire or rope. Then put the safety lock up on the freezer door up high where he cannot reach it. You will have to untie but it keep em out.
Try disciplining your kid. I know I only would have pulled that sh*t once. Why are parents so afraid of parenting these days?Have you considered appropriate curvature of your hand to the appropriate curvature of his behind - this is not beating or abuse - this loving discipline that demands he respect what he is not entitled too. Otherwise, if he is continually doing this is he hungry? This could be a need to be checked out with his pediatrician. Is he bored or just wanting attention? Is it the result of watching tv which promotes eating? We finally had to take tv out of our home in order to appropriately control the weight of our child. We lovingly disciplined. We parent controlled viewing of the tv. We gave undivided attention. We did not allow in between junk food snacks. Nothing seemed to slow down his voracious appetite and there was not a health concern. When the tv went, so did his continual nagging he was hungry and so did the 20 pounds he did not need to already be carrying around. Just to note: since we gave up tv, we have all lost weight, feel more in control of our own lives, and actually enjoy reading and family life - things we didn't realize we had sacrificed until we weren't living around tv. every time he/she open the fridge you should make him/her eat hot sauce
He needs tough love from you. Think about the concept of discipline, reward and punishment. Besides, do you want your kid to turn out obese?
I pretty much agree with everyone else on this one, however have you thought of putting fridge magnets on the fridge for him to play with? He can learn his letters/numbers, promote early reading and spelling and distract him from going into it. You still have to le him know that no really does mean no though. It will cause bigger problems in the long run.Source(s):
Mother of 7yr old and 4 yr old
When I was a kid my friends parents had a very strong magnet attached to a rope that they used to keep the little ones out of the fridge.(there was another piece of metal that had a loop like thing on it to attach the rope) It didn't look pretty, but it did the job. maybe don't put anything on the bottom shelfs have all the food up higher in the fridge ur 3 yr old can't reach it... altho he's gunna get taller and oviously get things to climb on to.. wow thats a hard one??
well u have gotten some weird answers.. about how to raise ur child well yeah in one ear out the other and can to the same with mine but i had the same problem with my son but he was 2... he was for ever getting cheese out of the fridge.. and he is a tall one to...lol dad is 6 4..lol and i'm 4 11..lol so yeah he didn't get it from me..lol but i went and got a college dorm fridge. and what ever he would get out i would make him go put it in my fridge in my bed room and then shut the door... and i kept telling me that if he wanted what ever he wanted he has to ask. he talked really realy early and also knows signlaung.. so he was able to ask and he is 3 now so i guess s/he can ask..:P i also had a safty door latch on my bed room door so he couldn't get in he started to ask finally..lol.. well i hope this helps and remember half the people that answer this isn't a parent or have different ways of raising there kids and not going to say there way is better ..lol but iwill raise my son as mine and hope u do to...sherrie
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my crazy son..:P
I have heard of (but never been able to find) a kind of fridge lock that is attached to the side of the fridge that opens that uses a key. I don't know where or how to find one. If you want to try this, you might want to call a locksmith; it would probably to be installed by a professional anyway.
my son did that all the time. One day I made a huge bowel of chocolate pudding and my son learned how to open the fridge with a spatula, I was at work, my husband fell asleep and woke to the kids laughing and found my daughter sitting in the pudding and my son scooping it up and dumping it on her head. What can you do except laugh and give them a bath? We stopped keeping good food in there till he stayed out of it and that worked actually. Nothing good in the fridge no desire to go in it. why can't he get something to eat if he is hungry?
if you don't want him eating snacks all day because it is unhealthy, fill your fridge with only healthy things and let him have what he wants
Is it really a problem? My 3yr. old son gets in the fridge all the time he has his own space for all his little snacks I buy him. He would rather eat a cheese stick or yogurt than candy and those things have to be kept cold. My son is disciplined also he minds and when I tell him he's had enough he puts whatever he got back. I just don't see a problem with my kids snacking threw out the day as long as they eat their dinner.
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