Any parent will understand the problem children have with turning lights off. To this day you can go through our house and find lights on; lights that have been left on by a 22 and 19 year old.
The boys must have been about 10 and 8 years old. One day I finally snapped. I was tired of them leaving the lights on throughout the house. The punishment I decided would be to deprive them of the use of anything that used electricity for the entire day: no, lights, no TV, no video games, no radio, NOTHING that used electricity.
I don’t know how many times the boys were grounded from the use of electricity but in theory it was a great idea. One day my mom and dad stopped by. The boys were on an electricity ban and were playing with legos in their room. Pop went in and asked them why they were paying in the dark. One of the boys very loudly announced that it was “a no electricity day. My mom and dad thought I was horrible.
A few years later a friend and I were talking. I told him about the “no electricity” days and he thought it was brilliant. As far as I know he adapted the practice but I have never asked him the results. For me, it didn’t work!
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