Her Daughter Kept Slamming Her Bedroom Door Even After She Spoke To Her About This, So She Took The Door Off The Frame And Her Daughter Melted Down
This 40-year-old woman is a mom of 3. Her children are 14-year-old Maggie, 12-year-old Levi, and 10-year-old Charlie.
Her sons Charlie and Levi share a bedroom, while Maggie gets her own, as she’s the only girl in their family.
Now, Maggie really is wonderful. She’s the kind of kid who diligently completes her homework, doesn’t annoy her siblings, and pitches in around the house without groaning about it excessively.
The only problem she really has with Maggie is that she constantly slams her bedroom door closed.
“When she gets up to use the bathroom at night, she slams her bedroom door on her way out and back in,” she explained.
“When she gets up in the morning or goes to bed at night, she slams it. Pretty much any time she enters or exits her room, the door gets slammed. And it’s only her door, none of the other doors in the house.”
“It shakes the walls and frequently wakes up everyone else in the house. Her brothers’ room shares a wall with hers, and our bedroom is directly above theirs.”
She has spoken to Maggie about the door slamming multiple times. She very kindly asked Maggie to stop doing this since it isn’t a nice thing for everyone in the house to have to deal with.
Although she did take the time to outline the issue to Maggie and ask that she resolve it, Maggie has largely ignored her.
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She finally turned to telling Maggie that if she kept up the door slamming, she would have no choice but to implement some kind of punishment, but that didn’t work either.
Well, one evening last week, Maggie got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and slammed her door closed when she got back to her room.
It was so loud that she, her husband, and her sons were jolted awake. Now, she gets up for work at 5 every morning, and she’s done with getting woken up by Maggie slamming her door and interrupting her ability to sleep.
She immediately got out of bed and went down to Maggie’s room to knock on the door and speak to her.
Maggie opened up her door and was pretty rude, yet she remained calm as she relayed to Maggie that if she slammed her bedroom door just once more, she was going to take it away from her.
“She proceeded to yell at me to leave her alone and then slammed it 5 times as hard as she could,” she said.
“Well, the next day (Friday), she went to school, and my husband and I both had the day off, so we took the door off the frame and installed a curtain rod with a nice heavy curtain over the door instead.”
“She came home and freaked…she said we’re being emotionally abusive and taking away her right to privacy. She sulked all weekend and won’t talk to us now.”
She did give Maggie a curtain so that she still could have privacy, and it’s not like you can see through the curtain or around it at all.
It provides the same coverage as a door would, essentially, especially since she added velcro so Maggie can really close it completely against the wall.
She then informed Maggie that as soon as she says yes to agreeing to no longer slam her door, they will put it right back for her.
Her own mom actually thinks she was too dramatic in removing Maggie’s door, but she knows her mom doesn’t understand how annoying it has been for her and everyone in their home to put up with. She’s left wondering if it was wrong of her to take Maggie’s door off the frame.
What do you think; does the punishment fit?
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