Do You Know How to Give Directions to a Child?

It's very unfair to be giving directions to a child who's not paying attention and didn't really hear you. You must look them in the eye, speak their name, speak in a normal tone of voice. When you speak twice, the child knows that he can delay obedience. My parents treated delayed obedience as disobedience. And my mother kept a little switch over the door of every room in the house,. A little switch about 18 inches long, that will never abuse a child but does sting those little bare legs.