Comments on Profile Post by Lyander

Just wait until the arthritis and general decline in dexterity of your 40's. All locks start to become child locks...

In an age of less sophistication, when I was a todler, my parents changed the knobs/locks on all the kitchen cupboards. Instead of turning, you had to press a button. Apparently I worked it out in seconds. As I lived with them up to age 15, I remember them well, and would not expect them to pose much of a challenge to any child.

DEFINITELY not looking forward to that cuz my joints are already on the noisy side.

Re: child locks, my one cousin keeps her son from opening cabinets up by... adding an adhesive mounted latch that he's too short to reach. Simple but effective.

The "push down to engage screw" things seems more effective on a sleepy me than actual kids though.

I take a certain pleasure in destroying child locks. For push down to unscrew caps, on the underside of the cap, use a thin wedge (e.g., flathead screwdriver) to separate the threaded piece inside the cap from the outer cover. That threaded piece works fine as a cap, and it doesn’t lock.