Part of the beauty of using this tool is that it’s not too irritating when it doesn’t work. When you give a child a direct order— “Buckle your seat belt, now!”—and she doesn’t comply, it’s infuriating. But when you give her information and she doesn’t act on it, you can move on to another tool without feeling the sting of direct defiance. You’ll be in a better mood to try something else.
