Light Switch

[MommyMuffin]

Does anyone know of something I can buy for the light switches? They love to play with them and I am trying to conserve energy.

[Blackcat31]

My husband found these at Ace hardware. They were $1.00 each. It has a little opening on side so you can still access the switch if you need to.

[DCMomOf3]

ooohhhh. I NEED those.

[mac60]

Interesting little contraption.....but to me it is very frustrating that providers have to go to this extreme on things. No touching means no touching. There was a day when no meant no.

[Luna]

Interesting little contraption.....but to me it is very frustrating that providers have to go to this extreme on things. No touching means no touching. There was a day when no meant no.

My thoughts exactly. I purposely have some harmless, indestructible things out that aren't to be touched, just because I believe kids need to know that just because they can reach it doesn't mean they can touch it.

[TGT09]

Interesting little contraption.....but to me it is very frustrating that providers have to go to this extreme on things. No touching means no touching. There was a day when no meant no.

Yep, this! It is hard when the child is not taught this at home though so it becomes us as providers issue at our house. I do believe children need to learn that they can't just touch anything and everything.

[Blackcat31]

Interesting little contraption.....but to me it is very frustrating that providers have to go to this extreme on things. No touching means no touching. There was a day when no meant no.

Sadly, this is in my entry way. I do not have these on the switches in my daycare. Just in the entry way...you know the place where parents are suppose to moderate the child's behavior.. LOL!!

[Luna]

Sadly, this is in my entry way. I do not have these on the switches in my daycare. Just in the entry way...you know the place where parents are suppose to moderate the child's behavior.. LOL!!

Lol, ah yes, No Man's Land...where there are no laws!

[DCMomOf3]

For me its in my stairwell leading to the daycare room, which they are just tall enough for. There is a learning curve with everything and it's my young toddlers that I have to keep from touching them not my preschool age and up, they know to not touch.

[mac60]

I know how you feel....we have a 2 light switch inside our front door...it is wired to 2 outlets in the room , which means that if the switch on the left is switched, the tv will go on/off, I have a piece of strapping tape over it because I have 2 yr olds that will go over and play with the switches, the right switch is the porch light. It just pisses me off that parents will stand there and let their kid flip it on and off, that is when a patty smack is warranted, especially when the word NO does no good.

[kidkair]

Lol, ah yes, No Man's Land...where there are no laws!

In my daycare I reprimand the child if they are doing something wrong even if they are in their parent's arms. When something is not allowed in my daycare it's not allowed.

[SilverSabre25]

Interesting little contraption.....but to me it is very frustrating that providers have to go to this extreme on things. No touching means no touching. There was a day when no meant no.

But you see mac, the word "no" has to backed up with action on the grown-up's part until the young child learns what it means. "No touching the light switch" accompanied with removing the child from the area (or picking them up, or whatever) accomplishes a HECK of a lot more than "No don't touch that" repeated 50 times. It's called "teaching"--where you do more than talk at the kid. Before too long, the child actually learns what "No" and "Don't touch" mean and then a simple, "No touch, please" does the trick. But the adult has to put in some effort first to help them understand.

[Preschool/daycare teacher]

But you see mac, the word "no" has to backed up with action on the grown-up's part until the young child learns what it means. "No touching the light switch" accompanied with removing the child from the area (or picking them up, or whatever) accomplishes a HECK of a lot more than "No don't touch that" repeated 50 times. It's called "teaching"--where you do more than talk at the kid. Before too long, the child actually learns what "No" and "Don't touch" mean and then a simple, "No touch, please" does the trick. But the adult has to put in some effort first to help them understand.

That's true, but if Mac's anything like us at our daycare, we can tell them that all we want and remove them EVERY time we see them doing it, but some kids STILL refuse to listen to "no". We could spend all day with things like that, removing them and telling them no touch on the light switches, feet on the ground (or no climbing, whatever you use to keep your kids from climbing), and removing them from the outdoor fence that they all love to climb as fast as a monkey, and no matter how many times you tell them and remove them, they still do it again in 5 minutes, or the very next time we go outside. Same thing for sitting and standing on the child sized tables... Seriously, I feel like a broken record repeating the same thing everytime they do it, and then like a robot removing them so many times. But it STILL doesn't help, no matter how many times we do it.

[SilverSabre25]

That's true, but if Mac's anything like us at our daycare, we can tell them that all we want and remove them EVERY time we see them doing it, but some kids STILL refuse to listen to "no". We could spend all day with things like that, removing them and telling them no touch on the light switches, feet on the ground (or no climbing, whatever you use to keep your kids from climbing), and removing them from the outdoor fence that they all love to climb as fast as a monkey, and no matter how many times you tell them and remove them, they still do it again in 5 minutes, or the very next time we go outside. Same thing for sitting and standing on the child sized tables... Seriously, I feel like a broken record repeating the same thing everytime they do it, and then like a robot removing them so many times. But it STILL doesn't help, no matter how many times we do it.

This is true; there are some it doesn't work for. Nothing is one size fits all. And that's when the best solution is to get something to just take away the entire problem. Saves everyone the stress and annoyance.

[mac60]

But you see mac, the word "no" has to backed up with action on the grown-up's part until the young child learns what it means. "No touching the light switch" accompanied with removing the child from the area (or picking them up, or whatever) accomplishes a HECK of a lot more than "No don't touch that" repeated 50 times. It's called "teaching"--where you do more than talk at the kid. Before too long, the child actually learns what "No" and "Don't touch" mean and then a simple, "No touch, please" does the trick. But the adult has to put in some effort first to help them understand.

Oh Gosh, I know this, my whole point. Goes back to what I have said all along with teaching/learning when it comes to bad behaviors/doing things they shouldn't. There needs to be a consequence for the bad or wrong behavior, whether, in this case, removing them, TO, or pop the patty gently. The word NO is just a noise that means nothing to most little ones.