Lock System No Longer Works

(July 2020) Well, Payton has figured out all our lock systems.  It has been so nice having a fenced in backyard and now the girls are old enough to go out there by themselves.  We just leave the deck door open so we can hear them.  Well one day Jimmy goes to check on the girls by looking out the living room window and there he sees Payton in the neighbor’s yard.  She’s on their trampoline again.  Awesome!  She has figured out the gate.  It’s nice that she’s figuring things out; but now we have major safety concerns.  We go out and get her.  She’s just laughing and laughing.  She doesn’t understand boundaries and this could become a major safety concern.  So Jimmy installs a heavy duty bolt on the gate and now she can’t get out. However, she has now figured out the eye hooks on the doors.  We have eye hooks at the tops of all our doors inside; so that she can’t just leave when she wants to.  She knows she can slide a chair or climb on the counter to unhook them.  Smart little cookie.  So one day she opens up the door to the garage and hits the button to open the big garage door, and out she goes.  Thank goodness for our neighbors having that trampoline.  She goes there every time.   I get her back inside through the garage, but I forgot we had the front door open.  That was stupid of me.  Off she runs, in the back door and out the front.   I yell at Jimmy, “She’s going out the front door.”  He gets up and takes off after her while I finish locking up the back door.  She gets back inside and goes straight to the back door.  This little shit is now going from door to door to see how best to get back to that trampoline.  Once she realizes I’ve got everything locked up tight, she goes into anger mode.  She’s left the house six times this week.  She’s getting craftier; so now we have to step up our game.  I know it sounds like we’re keeping her captive; but we need to know where she is.  She’s never going to tell us she’s leaving like any other kid would; and we’d never know how far she’d go since she has no concept of boundaries.  Her inability to communicate also creates a big concern should she get lost.  Since that week, we’ve ordered new locks for the doors and windows.  Cross your fingers that they’re Payton proof. We’re also looking into a home security system, but what we need is to keep her in.  Most security systems are built to keep people out.  They have little buzzers to let you know if someone goes out the door; but that’s not much help other than night time.