It's rough when your four year old becomes smarter than you are. Ours has now decided to become the energy czar of our house. If I leave a room and the light is not turned off (because I'm going right back, of course), she'll say, "Would you please go turn that light off for me?"

I can't really argue with her, but I wish this new zeal for energy conservation had come from something I had taught her rather than her listening to a commercial for the power company.

She doesn't seem to remember anything we tell her, let alone have it spur her to any kind of constructive action. Maybe we could get the power company to run a commercial telling kids to clean their rooms or eat their dinner without whining.