http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/queensland/news-story/b76b621a01975705d3ca4be9ed56a080
That’s very good use of NLP. Being a parent is challenging.
Sometimes, embedded commands can work well too.
Miss 4 just made myself look at her poo in the toilet and said “one is you and one is me and they love each other like we do”.
Naaawwwww…yuck!
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l come into this thread infrequently, but not just to be entertained. l am also interested in the language development of these kids and the thought processes involved. They continue to crack me up.
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It’s OK to say no to looking at poo. Did your morbid curiosity get the best of you?
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She’s very persuasive. 
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I’d say always go look at the poo if requested, lest they bring it to you!
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So if Santa Claus can see everything, he watches me doing a poo? - 7 year old Son getting ito the Christmas spirit
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Hit them with ‘if you don’t believe, you don’t receive’ shuts them up pronto
Case in point - I’m 32 years old and I still believe in Santa Claus.
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18 month old small P loves vehicles - first word was car, learned train soon after, then bus and plane.
He has now learned the word for truck.
Kinda.
It starts with F.
It’s always a funny reaction.
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Howwwwwdy Ho!
My brother said the same word… my Parents from then on called them lorries
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Fruck?
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Scooby?
My parents banned toy trucks from church when my brother started that.
Our eldest used to say clock without pronouncing the L
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Ta.
4 yo: “When I grow up, I’m going to be Santa”.
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And it ain’t because they want to give presents to people, right?