The verbal examples are commonly in third person: “It is not okay to…”; “Mommy doesn’t like it when you…”; or “Joey isn’t allowed to…” Then there’s the philosophical approach: “Faces are not for slapping”; “Streets are not for running into”; “Friends are not for biting.” Or, the ‘royal we’: “We don’t throw food” (while our perceptive toddlers are thinking: Well, some of us don’t).
