re: 3 year old boys freezes to death outside of home

raised 146K why?

Exactly the reason why when we bought our current house, I removed all and deadbolts that lead to the outside and replaced them with keyed deadbolts with matching key knobs. All doors use one key. They stay locked at all times unless we are physically walking through them or doing something outside where we are able to monitor our girls. We have the keys in places that the kids can't reach, even from a chair.

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I have two small children and literally them just walking and thier footsteps wakes me up at night. As the poster you are referring too said, theres no way a capable person doesn't hear a door open and close at 4 am with a child in the house. Before I had children a nuc could go off and I wouldn't wake up. As a poster said before, having a child changes your awareness and senses......or at least it should.

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This is silly, to be honest.

A couple times per week one of my 3 year olds will wake up, walk across the house and climb into bed with my wife and I. 99% of the time we wake up and hear him either from the camera(really just audio) or him opening the door to our bedroom, but every once in a while, the wife and I wake up and realize he's in bed with us without having woken up when he came in.

If you want to believe some fairy tale about your heightened sense of awareness compared to other parents out there, you can, but like I said, it's just silly to believe something like that. Or to clarify, I agree that every parent does have some sense that heightens their awareness, but you're probably overstating it to say every parent should be capable to wake up to a door opening/closing every single time it happens at 4am. That's impossible, the key is to make sure your house is set up in a such a way that things like what happened in the OP still can't possibly happen to a 3 year old even if you don't wake up.