Keys for children?

peachyprice

Mojisola wrote: »

If a key goes missing, you wouldn't know if it had been lost or taken.

Why would a child take another child's key? For an adult to be rifling through a child's pockets/bag would draw an awful lot of attention, and they would have to know where they lived too.

If you'e going down that route, adults are far more of a risk, we carry all sorts of ID with us in the same place as our keys, children don't tend to carry their addresses with them.

With a keysafe on the wall 'someone' could follow the children home, wait until they've put the key back then take a hammer to it. It's no safer if you believe someone will be after your child's key.

I think the majority of lost keys are dropped in the street, nowhere near home. I've certainly found keys in the street plenty of times. Wouldn't even begin to know where to look for the owner.

aliasojo

peachyprice wrote: »

Why would a child take another child's key? For an adult to be rifling through a child's pockets/bag would draw an awful lot of attention, and they would have to know where they lived too.

Possible scenario (in our case anyway)....daughter goes to youth club (club is for ages 12-18), puts key down, one of the older yobbish gits that hang around mainly to cause trouble and aren't really interested in the youth club itself, picks it up 'for a laugh'. Daughter doesn't realise it's missing now.

The 'laugh' becomes slightly more serious when he laughs with his mates about it and they soon decide to keep the key to see what they can get up to when there is no-one home.

This is based on a situation that actually happened to someone else but could easily happen to daughter simply because she's not the most careful of souls and forgets things a lot.

Mojisola

peachyprice wrote: »

Why would a child take another child's key?

With a keysafe on the wall 'someone' could follow the children home, wait until they've put the key back then take a hammer to it. It's no safer if you believe someone will be after your child's key.

I think the majority of lost keys are dropped in the street, nowhere near home.

I agree with the last bit - I'm sure that's the case.

Otherwise, it's just a case of being careful and not having to worry if a key does go missing.

Our neighbours were robbed by older brothers of one of their children's classmates because the younger siblings were passing on information to them when they heard class mates talking about having things worth stealing so filching a key and passing it on isn't too strange a thing to imagine.

Keysafes do vary in their quality. I bought a more expensive one for safety - if anyone did manage to get it off the wall, I don't think they'd be able to open it.

peachyprice

I guess if your children are going to be in those sorts of situations it's best to be over-cautious.

Certainly makes me glad that my daughter only goes to ballet and guides, not hanging about in the same place as 18yo yobbish gits. Although she does have a rather fine collection of ballet shoes that could be tempting

peachyprice

Mojisola wrote: »

I agree with the last bit - I'm sure that's the case.

Otherwise, it's just a case of being careful and not having to worry if a key does go missing.

Our neighbours were robbed by older brothers of one of their children's classmates because the younger siblings were passing on information to them when they heard class mates talking about having things worth stealing so filching a key and passing it on isn't too strange a thing to imagine.

Keysafes do vary in their quality. I bought a more expensive one for safety - if anyone did manage to get it off the wall, I don't think they'd be able to open it.

I guess it's all relative to where you live then, and more importantly what kind of children go to the same school.

notanewuser

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

Oh yes you did, just that they weren't talked about in the media like they are now

I know. I was being sarcastic.

Lunar_Eclipse

aliasojo wrote: »

Possible scenario (in our case anyway)....daughter goes to youth club (club is for ages 12-18)

Eek! I'm slightly horrified but also impressed with your daughter for going, both at the same time. Although I'm also wondering why you allow her to go? yobbish gits?

There is no way my 13 year old would be socially comfortable at that youth club. An age span of 12-18: there's a world of difference between the two. DD2 has just turned 12, and a tall & very mature 12 at that, but she's only a week into secondary school and still playing with Lego!

Mojisola

peachyprice wrote: »

I guess it's all relative to where you live then, and more importantly what kind of children go to the same school.

You only need a couple of bad apples and they can be found in any area and any school.

Rain_Shadow

When I was young (the 60s) there was a key on the ladder hung on the wall inside the unlocked garage. I never had my own key.

My sons have had house keys since they were 11 and 9. Necessary as they regularly arrived home an hour or two before anyone else. They never lost one. They've lost a few more recently though (now 19 and 17) but so have I. I've never thought it necessary to change my door lock though.

Prothet_of_Doom

We gave a back door key, to our kids aged 10, on thier birthday, telling them that they were old enough to be trusted.
Back door, because my wife didn't want people to know that they were letting themselves in occasionally.
At 17 we gave daughter a front door key, as she had spent 7 years compliaining that she didn't want to go around the back.
Neither of them have ever lost a key.