Sanity In The PM

Every now and then we go through a period of time when Dillon feels the need to get out of bed over and over and over again after we have put him down for the night. I have tried sitting outside of his door until I know he is sleeping, but I get tired and uncomfortable and it just doesn't work for me. We have tried closing his door, which by the way has no door knob due to this same problem two years ago, but then he bangs on it so loud it wakes the girls up and I have even bigger problems. I have tried negotiating, bribing, threatening, really just about everything. Well, a little while back Dillon came down stairs early one morning and opened the back door before we had the chance to disarm the security system. Needless to say the alarm sounded and it scared the kid to death, he certainly will not be making that mistake again. So last night when I was struggling, once again, to get him to stay in bed I realized that we had an old, inactive, keypad from an old security system the previous owners had installed conveniently right outside Dillon's door. So now I just tell him that I have to set the alarm so that he sill stay in his bed and I will turn it off when I come up and see that he is sleeping. Works like a charm.
I know in some of your books this might make me a "bad mom",
at least it makes me a sane bad mom.