Opinion poll on giving toddler electrical stuff to play with

Someone else posted about giving their kid basket of stuff they can cut up with scissors as an outlet (shout-out /u/thetardisandthehair!), which reminded me of something I used to do with my toddler that I'm not sure is okay in hindsight.He's completely obsessed with wires and cables and plugs and gadgets. Like, we'll take him to a new exciting place and he zeros in on the electrical equipment and tries to figure out where they are plugged into. Other kids watch unboxing videos of toys, he watches unboxing videos of international plug adapters. He loves the Wikipedia page of international electrical outlets.Yeah.... Otherwise a normal kid, I swear.Anyway we were having a tremendously difficult time getting him to leave sockets and plugs alone and he's able to remove every childproofing in existence.So instead we gave him a basket of various unused cables, plugs, small devices, an (unconnected) extension unit to plug them into in his playroom, where all the electrical outlets are safely blocked by furniture, and let him work out his urge to his heart's content. He quickly learned that if he stayed in the playroom he could enjoy his Wire Wonderland, and if he took them out of the playroom they would all get taken away. So he got very good at staying in there playing safely with his wires etc and leaving everything else alone.He has since become old enough for me to introduce electrical circuit building toys instead so he doesn't have that basket anymore. But he's still super interested in electrical circuits.But I was wondering about what everyone else thinks and if anyone has done a similar thing. Not a validation post, we're still learning and expecting #2 so looking to do better all the time as parents. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2lCfSxo