Do You Have Verbal Authority When a Child Crawls?

When a child begins to crawl is the most crucial time. If you haven't established verbal authority be or he begins to crawl, you certainly better start doing it then. He's going to pull things off the coffee table and go for the bookcase. So let me just give you one practical suggestion. You tell your three year old to come, and he doesn't come, and you say six times, and finally you get mad, and maybe you jump up and go and grab him. At which point you have taught him what that he doesn't have to come the first time, or the second, or the third, or the sixth. You have also taught him that he doesn�