After Arnold Schwarzenegger’s requests to his eldest son, Patrick Schwarzenegger, to turn off his lights repeatedly fell on deaf ears, the former bodybuilder warned him that he would unscrew a lightbulb from the chandelier in his room every time he left them on. On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Arnold acknowledged that the then-5-year-old wasn’t too concerned about it at first because he had seven lightbulbs in the chandelier. But after Patrick failed to respect his father’s wishes for the seventh time, he was left completely in the dark.
As he was tearing up, Arnold asked his son how he could prevent future re-occurrences of the situation, and the young boy vowed to switch his lights off whenever he wasn’t using the room. The action star managed to get through to him, and Patrick never repeated his mistake. As Arnold told People, he also had a problem with Patrick’s long showers and told him to reduce them to five minutes, but his complaints weren’t taken seriously once again. So, the actor resorted to his tried-and-tested method of experience-based teaching and installed a shower timer to turn the water frigid after five minutes.
“The Expendables” star recalled how it all played out: “So when he got the shower on and he was whistling and singing in there and thinking Daddy’s not around, all [of a] sudden the ice-cold shower came on.” He continued, “And all of a sudden, we heard downstairs, the scream.” Arnold didn’t bestow any special treatment on his daughters either but they happily wore their tough upbringing as a badge of honor.
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