Do your kids turn the lights on in every room they enter?

Question

Even in the day time? How do you get them to stop?

Answer 1

i ask them not too do it and if that doesn't work i tell them too not do it.

Answer 2

My daughter doesn't unless she goes to the basement. I just make her pay me 5 cents everytime she turns it on the sun is up. If she doesn't have 5 cents, she can do a chore and 'work it off'

Answer 3

Our daughter used to, and still does on occasion. We just tell her "we don't turn lights on until it's nighttime" and turn them off, or she turns them off. I don't know what the fascination is with the light switch...but she still slips and turns them on sometimes.

Answer 4

i dont have kids but my nephews do that all the time when they come over. at first i thought they must have some sort of optometric problem and couldnt really see and thats why they were doing it, but no, just a bad habit. i think they really had a thing about lights though, they liked flicking them on and off over and over and over to create a strobe light type of effect just for the sake of it. very annoying.

Answer 5

Well do you turn lights on all the time, even having a night light at night? A lot of it has to do with when your children were little and what they have seen from their parents. When you walk into your house do you turn a light right on? I just sound like a parrot "turn the lights off, turn the lights off". After 3 years of harping, they do not touch the lights unless it is dark. I am also a person who does not use lights even at night. Each of the kids have spent the night at some point and they know my rules, but their parents turn lights on all the time.

Answer 6

im 13 and still do it without noticing....

Answer 7

It takes years of reminding to get them into a habit.

If it's day, and there's no need for a light, it goes on.  If it's dim, and they're going to read, and so need a light, it doesn't.

I'm still trying to get them to turn the light off when they leave the room.  So far, it only happens when i'm still in the room reading.

But at least they read.

Punishment doesn't work.  Tell them what they need to do for some reward.  Then catch them doing it right and reward them.  Move on to the next item.  Tell them they have to do the previous thing, and the new thing for the reward.  And so on.  The reward can be something you'd give them anyway, but you must be prepared to withhold it.

Answer 8

they always do,and they live them on. but because they are children's and they do not understand,till you teach them to shot them off

Answer 9

Man when we were little my mom used to hate that. She finally broke us after constant day after day of nagging. We found out it was easier to 1) not have the lights on during the day and 2) its easier to shut them off when you leave rather than getting nagged at. Now as an adult it is my biggest pet peeve, my husband drives me crazy about that!

Answer 10

My daughter does and i go round switching them off after her,

Answer 11

Everytime you see a light left on, make them switch them off and tell them you will make them everytime they leave them. If they are older and more stuck in their ways, stop their pocket money and tell them its to pay for the energy they are wasting.

My kids are very good at switching lights off now and not wasting. They are 6yrs and 4 yrs.

Answer 12

besides take out all the light bulbs or break their arms i haven't figured that one out yet ,, LOL

better yet do they leave them on when no one is in the room too

Answer 13

If is during the day, then no.