Here recently in the trend of children’s hooliganistic stories and discussions about leaving children (for a short time) alone.
My son is six years old. The conditional reflex has already been developed (hopefully strong enough) on height, sharp-cut-hot objects, bicycle, highway, reservoirs, etc. I have long thought about how to develop a reflex of respect for electricity. Insert the independent charging from the tablet in the socket (under my obligatory supervision!But there is no real danger. I remembered my hooligan childhood, took a strip of food foil, twisted the ends, hold passages. I will take my son to a safe distance, an instruction, such as: "...the electricity is not visible, but it is very strong and dangerous, it passes through metal objects..." And this foil in the socket... Something I did not calculate with the width (thickness) of the strip, and the apartment machine for some reason did not work, but it was very serious, the foil burning in all directions... I myself broke up, but I do not show the type, it should be.
I quickly destroyed the burning pieces of foil. The son's eyes are "quadratic", the ears are reflexively closed with his hands. “You see, my son, what can electricity do to you if you don’t treat it carefully? Do not repeat the experience!” Respectfully and frighteningly.
Fighting with pedagogical pride, I clean tools, foil. And suddenly the son says, “Dad, let’s go again, I’ll close my ears in advance!“...