“Being a parent is like an extreme sport”: toddler locks himself in a room, stunned by SA

Young boy’s parents were panicked after he got stuck in one of the rooms of the house and couldn’t get out
The mom and dad tried to get him out, and a video of their attempt was shared on the mom’s TikTok account.
The clip left social media users worried, trying to figure out how he got away with it, and for others, it was more entertaining

The parents of a toddler became concerned after he couldn’t get out of a room he had locked himself in. Image: @bongolethum
Source: TikTok

A toddler had many women who didn’t yet have children thinking twice about the motherhood journey after seeing what he was doing in one of the bedrooms in the house.

The mom captured the toddler in a video she shared on TikTok under her handle @bongolethum.

Parents try to help toddler

The clip begins with the mother knocking on one of the rooms and asking her toddler, who has locked himself in, to try to open it. The little man responds but cannot put the key in his hole. The parents try to make him throw the room key out the window.

Mzansi worries about little boy

The clip attracted 1.1 million views, 61,000 likes and almost 1.9,000 comments from social media users who were both worried and amused by the boy’s mischievous act. Some shared similar behaviors with their children and others advised the mother to stop leaving the keys at the door.

User @Lynn shared:

“How old is Ukho?! I’m so angry parenting takes a lot of patience, yho!”

User @Tee_Dlamuka said:

“At least he locked himself…mine locked me in the room after our fight, and he couldn’t open. I thought I was going to die that day.”

User @Char commented:

“ Hayi, parenting is like an extreme sport so did he jump the key, sister, what happened ?”

User @wami_owami added:

“This is the reason why my mother didn’t leave the keys to our doors until today, even for the bathroom .”

Mom saves child after locking herself in bedroom

In another In brief News article, a toddler panicked his mother after she locked herself in a bedroom at her home and couldn’t open the key.

The bedroom door had a small gap, which the mother used to push a piece of paper to show her daughter to do the same with the keys.

Source: In Brief News