This reminds me of that South Park episode where they used a Minecraft quiz, as the parental control, on the parents.

I voted YDI. Not for screaming at the television because I can understand your excitement, but for how you've handled the situation. Rather than bribing the child, punish the child. Her actions are inexcusable for a child of her age. A 4 year old does not run the household, and if you let her, then you're not very good parents. Rather than being on fmylife, Google how to reset your television. Don't ask or tell her to give you the code. Instead, reset it yourselves with a solution on the net so she knows she can't get away with this even if she doesn't learn from the punishment alone. I'm almost certain that every television has some sort of dummy reset in case the code's been forgotten.

Whip that booty till she tells you! Easy enough!

She needs to learn to face her fears .

um ok ya you need to spank her its ok to give a kid a spanking sometimes

If she knows that they scream because of football, she knows it's not at her and just considers it unpleasent. So blocking sing-alongs because the singing annoys you is tit for tat.

Little Einstein! Maybe you can learn something from her

Good Girl, Good for her :)

OP, consider this: when your child screams and carries on, what happens? do you not punnish her by grounding or taking away privileges? something tells me she learned this from you. you fully expect her to apologize (and mean it), so why should she expect anything less from you, her role model? be the bigger person here OP and genuinely apologize to your daughter, and work out some kind of compromise, like maybe either just don't scream and yell like wild animals at the television, or try to set up play-dates or sleep-overs at her friends' houses so she'll be away during football games and the noise won't bother her. on a sidenote, YDI for not having already set up the child lock code. if you had done that, she would've needed to know the code in the first place in order to lock out any channels.

Dont those things have like a master reset or something