When it comes to your children and your home, it's important to take precautions for both your child and your home. In the society that we live in today, often both parents have to work leaving many children to arrive at home alone and with the keys to your home. This could be a problem and potentially a future security risk. Here's why:
- Children LOOSE KEYS! They misplace them, the key chain breaks, the lanyard breaks or the key gets stolen.
- Children leave the keys visible. They are not mindful of the dangers of a visible key
- A visible key can be photographed with a smartphone which can then be decoded with an APP. Now a copy of that key can be made.
- Most home invasions or robberies happen from someone that knows what you have, they have already been in your home! Friends, friends of friends, ex boyfriends or girlfriends etc, etc.
- Children often invite friends over when your not home. If you have a hidden key, they are not mindful when getting that key and reveal the hiding place of the key.
- Make entry for children on one specific door only.
- Install or have installed, an electric keypad deadbolt. Do NOT get the WIFI version as these can be hacked! An electric keypad deadbolt has codes that can be programmed in, that are specific for each child. That code can be changed easily and OFTEN and is recommended to be changed monthly. You can never be too secure.
- Install an entry camera. This way you know who your children are bringing home. Since they don't have keys to the other doors, they have to use the chosen entry which in turn shows who they let in. Double keyed deadbolts can be used on the other doors so they can't open them, letting someone in that you did not know about.
- Have your children call you or text you when they arrive home.
- If they forget the code, have them call you or text you and you can give them the code. This is great because you don't have to leave work to let them in and you know that they are home and not hanging out somewhere else until you get home
