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I have 3 children and when I started giving "the look", it didn't work. Then I realized that I wasn't really following through with the "punishment" if they didn't do what they were told. We now have chores that are done everyday and if they don't get done by the end of the day, the next day they get privileges taken away. Now if one of them isn't doing their "list" (of chores) then all I have to do is give them "the look" and they hop up and run to get them done. They have just learned in the past month that privileges WILL be taken away and now they understand what the look actually means, because I am following through with the punishment.
Something else I have learned too that really has nothing to do with the look, but is about parenting....make sure that the punishment you give the child doesn't take away from the parents privileges. (such as no tv or we can't go to this event if you don't get that done etc.) If you take away the tv from your child when you want to watch, then all that will happen is that you will be fighting to keep the kid out of the room while you are trying to watch it.
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