OMG that is horrible! Luckily my back entrance is right at the top of the stairs from my basement so there is no need to go through the whole house. I find it worse when we are outside. Kids run and hide, whine they want to go on the slide one more time. What drives me nuts the most is that the invisible barrier that the kids know is there goes out the window when mom/dad show up. My yard is not fenced (on an acreage so not worried about traffic etc). The kids know they are only allowed in the back yard. It amazes me how parents let them run around the house and go running after them or run in the driveway when they all know full well that other parents will be picking up. I just wonder what they are like when they go shopping or to the park in town. The kids know they do not run from me. What I say goes and drives me nuts to see parents not acting like parents.