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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt2019-08-05 04:59 pm

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Dear Care and Feeding,

Please settle this battle between my 16-year-old and myself. She wants to put a lock on her bedroom door. (Her younger brother does, admittedly, bust in on her a lot.) I just don’t like the idea. I don’t like the idea of locks in my house, I don’t think she really knows what she’s asking for, and it’s causing a lot of fights.

—The House Is for Everyone


Let her put a lock on the door. She’s 16. She’ll be an adult and out the door in two years. She deserves to be able to masturbate in peace. This is the easiest question I have ever gotten. Thank you.
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[personal profile] metawidget 2019-08-06 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Having had a small kid lock a door and need semi-heroic handy skills applied to get the door open again there is a certain appeal to the sort of lock you can open with a thin stick (they seem pretty standard on house bathrooms).

But yeah, let her get a lock! Heck, if she had a birthday coming up (or just because), gift her a nice locking doorknob and offer any help she needs installing it (but she may like the extra satisfaction of breaking out the tools and making it happen).