James Gagney wrote:
My middle-school kid is embarrassed by the lights on the sneakers him
mom bought him for the start of school.

See picture he
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...mg/9153934.jpg

I told my boy that I'd 'fix' it.

Now I need YOUR help!

How do you turn OFF the lights to a kid's pair of sneakers?

I'd try a microwave oven. Someone else's. :-)

Induced voltage might fry the bulbs.