‘Angry’ 6-Year-Old Sends Clear Message to Dad With Hilarious Sign on Door

A Michigan dad has shared a glimpse of a hilarious sign that greeted him outside the door of his six-year-old daughter’s room.

Having your own bedroom represents something of a luxury to many children today. In 2022, a SleepFoundation.org survey of 1,250 U.S. parents and caregivers found 70.4 percent of households with two or more children had kids sharing bedrooms. The benefits of having your own private space as a child is clear, as it found children with their own rooms slept an average of 28 minutes more every night.

It goes beyond simply resting though. Aaron Cooper, a licensed clinical psychologist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University, told The Atlantic that bedrooms give kids the chance to “create their own kingdom” decorated and set up in a way of their choosing. It’s a taste of the independence they will likely experience when they reach adulthood and move out to a place of their own.

Dyllon Macdougall’s six-year-old daughter is clearly enjoying the independence her bedroom affords her, and from the looks of it, she isn’t averse to getting creative in a bid to keep her dad out of her private space.

In a video posted to Macdougall’s TikTok, dyllonmacdougall, the Detroit-based dad shared a snapshot of the sign his daughter put on her door after a recent argument.

“I think I upset my 6 year old daughter,” he wrote alongside the post. “She locked herself in my room and posted this sign.”

Quite what exactly his daughter was upset about is unclear. Newsweek reached out to Macdougall for comment and while he gave permission for his video to feature on the website, he did not respond to questions.

What is clear, however, is that his daughter was not happy and Macdougall was very much persona non grata in her room. The sign, written on a sheet of white paper taped to the door, features any number of messages, featuring the kind of adorable misspelling that will be familiar to anyone with kids.

“No boys alawd,” one reads. “I mene it dad.” Another adds: “You are crasey.”

Another message simply states: “Do not come in.”

The sign had viewers on TikTok amused. “She’s out for blood,” one joked, with another writing: “I’d do that too.” A third added: “you heard the lady,” with a fourth simply revelling in the spelling of “I mene it dad.”

This isn’t the first time a bedroom sign has had the internet entertained. Back in September 2022, an eight-year-old girl went viral on Reddit after a photo of the “dramatic” sign she left on her door ended up online.

The picture, shared by Reddit user u/UseOnceandDestroy27, revealed she had written a sign warning: “Don’t come in without knocking. I might be having a moment.”

It would appear Macdougall’s daughter was “having a moment” of her own.