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I have all the kids I sit on a regular basis trained to understand the saying, "I don't chew my cabbage twice." It's a colloquial and polite way of informing them I don't repeat myself. The first time they ask what it means, I explain, they understand, and I always say it when they ask me to repeat myself. From there it becomes abundantly clear that either 1) they should have been paying attention, or 2) they genuinely didn't hear me. We move on appropriately from there, but generally all the kids know I don't repeat directions or instruction often, and they had better pay attention.

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