{"id":24,"date":"2007-02-16T19:41:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T19:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/turning-off-the-lights\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:56:04","slug":"turning-off-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/turning-off-the-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning off the lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/light-bulb.jpg\" width=\u00e2\u20ac\u009d150\u00e2\u20ac\u009d height=\u00e2\u20ac\u009d200\u00e2\u20ac\u009d alt=\"turn off lights\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the hardest things to do is to get teenage girls to turn off the lights when they leave a room.  I should know.  I have two teenage girls.<\/p>\n<p>Every night when they go to bed, I walk around the house turning off lights and sometimes even the TV. In those rare instances when they are up later than I am, I wake up to some lights on in the house. Every morning after they go off to school, I go around turning off lights and the hair straightener. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What else can I do?  Yelling won&#8217;t help. Pleading won&#8217;t help. Explaining the benefits won&#8217;t help. These are kids trying to be independent and living with their own history tests, boys, and what she said to her yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; I have two younger girls who are currently on a sticker reward program for not getting into the teenagers&#8217; stuff: make up, clothes, hair brushes, and whatever else teenage girls have. Maybe a sticker reward system would work with them as well?  And after a week of turning off their lights by themselves, I can give them a reward. The only reward they care about is money, and I am fine with that. If they get the habit of turning off lights, I figure I can save us some money.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone else has some ideas on how to get teenage girls to turn off lights, I am all ears.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#bottom--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest things to do is to get teenage girls to turn off the lights when they leave a room. I should know. I have two teenage girls. Every night when they go to bed, I walk around the house turning off lights and sometimes even the TV. In those rare instances when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10173,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}