There is nothing like Parenthood.
I never thought that I was going to be a fantastic mom, or fantasized about having a house full of little kids, but here I am, for the past 15 years I have been raising a whole horde of children, and I have learned a thing or two, however parenting is all about being patient, comaffectionate, and knowing when to set sneaky boundaries, and sometimes, you can tell your child something 50 times, but they will not internalized the lesson until they learn it themselves.
That’s why, you have to come up with creative ways to help them absorb crucial life lessons. Recently, I have stopped screaming at my children for messing with the thermostat everyday. For several years, we have had an ongoing house battle over the indoor air temperature settings, and my kids are regularly trying to crank up the air-conditioning system or abuse the awful forced air furnace. They don’t understand how lavish heating and cooling is, or the crazy stress of a yearly energy bill. All that my kids appreciate is having the immediate gratification that comes with high powered indoor air temperature control appliances, then we’ve been screaming over this issue for so long that I finally decided to just keep my mouth shut. Rather than battling over energy bills and Heating and A/C repair appointments that the kids can’t respect, I decided to deter them from the thermostat in another way. I finished making a thermostat off the wall and loosely removed one of the wiring connections! Now, if you try to address the thermostat on the wall, you get a small electric shock. My kids are suddenly deterred from the thermostat fiddling, and my energy bills are looking much better.
