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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 175675" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Serious suggestion, taking a leaf from the book at Milford Lodge, the eco-friendly upmarket backpacker's lodge we stayed in a year ago at Milford Sound - </p><p></p><p>They were a tiny place stuck in the middle of a very precious wilderness. So no wires running power in, no water pipes, as small a footprint as possible on the land. </p><p></p><p>But they needed power to run the computers, the phones, the lights, the heating and the water pumps (the water supply was from the glacier-fed streams). So there were notices around - the power came form a generator which was switched off at 11 pm and not turned on again until 6 am. If you needed to get around after "generator out" (such as going to the loo, or going to see the glow-worms) you had to have a torch. Because it is nestled between very high mountains very close by, moonlight was even not enough, because the mountains blocked out the moon except for an hour or two in the middle of the night. That place was DARK and COLD during the generator off time.</p><p></p><p>So do the same thing - in the interests of being more eco-friendly and trying to do your bit to reduce greenhouse gases in the US, shut off your power board at an official family-notified "lights out". And do not switch it on again until the official "lights on" time, as set by you - the main tenants of the house.</p><p></p><p>For heaven's sake - whose house is it? If ANY tenant or house guest cannot abide by house rules, he should be given a warning, and eventually asked to leave. Major carpentry work at 3 am is not on. If his bed has collapsed at 2.45 am, then he can drag the mattress onto the floor and sleep there until a more civilised hour.</p><p></p><p>From personal experience with difficult child 1 - as soon as you pander to their nocturnal schedule, they abuse it and continue to live as if night is day and day is night, and will complain if your activity disturbs them.</p><p></p><p>I've told my late-night game-playing kids - we have a fuse box on our power board and I'm not afraid to use it.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 175675, member: 1991"] Serious suggestion, taking a leaf from the book at Milford Lodge, the eco-friendly upmarket backpacker's lodge we stayed in a year ago at Milford Sound - They were a tiny place stuck in the middle of a very precious wilderness. So no wires running power in, no water pipes, as small a footprint as possible on the land. But they needed power to run the computers, the phones, the lights, the heating and the water pumps (the water supply was from the glacier-fed streams). So there were notices around - the power came form a generator which was switched off at 11 pm and not turned on again until 6 am. If you needed to get around after "generator out" (such as going to the loo, or going to see the glow-worms) you had to have a torch. Because it is nestled between very high mountains very close by, moonlight was even not enough, because the mountains blocked out the moon except for an hour or two in the middle of the night. That place was DARK and COLD during the generator off time. So do the same thing - in the interests of being more eco-friendly and trying to do your bit to reduce greenhouse gases in the US, shut off your power board at an official family-notified "lights out". And do not switch it on again until the official "lights on" time, as set by you - the main tenants of the house. For heaven's sake - whose house is it? If ANY tenant or house guest cannot abide by house rules, he should be given a warning, and eventually asked to leave. Major carpentry work at 3 am is not on. If his bed has collapsed at 2.45 am, then he can drag the mattress onto the floor and sleep there until a more civilised hour. From personal experience with difficult child 1 - as soon as you pander to their nocturnal schedule, they abuse it and continue to live as if night is day and day is night, and will complain if your activity disturbs them. I've told my late-night game-playing kids - we have a fuse box on our power board and I'm not afraid to use it. Marg [/QUOTE]
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