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Old 11-30-2005, 04:15 AM   #62 (permalink)
Catdaddy33
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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
The way most of you explain it, it should be replaced with, "I already explained it." For the rest of situations, all it's going to do is either teach them to resent authoriy, or worse, to blindly obey orders without any consideration of the reasoning. xephrys' question of, "Do you know why ..." is also a much better solution. At the bare minimum, a child should know the logic behind a rule, even if they won't agree with it.
BISS closes the conversation as there is no way for a response. If I say that "I've explained it.." that leaves it open for that wonderful "child-memory-lapse-syndrome".. Where she says "explained what?" then I get to repeat what has been said every weekend for the past ___ years....

I don't use BISS a lot, but I do use it for those special situations
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