How to Say No to Your Kids

Not really means in a nice way I don't want to go so you give some excuse whether it's a factual excuse or something made up but you give an excuse not really without wanting to hurt anybody's feelings perhaps some other time. Not really is one of my favorites certainly not and here it's all about intonation Certainly not this is an expression that would be often used by parents when their children were young because they didn't want to stop them asking for things. So there's three ways in which we can say no without actually using the word no I'm afraid not not really and certainly not okaySo you can try them and as always you can contact me hc.englishlanguage