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• Be consistent with the consequences when the child fails to follow the guidelines/rules/expectations/agreements.
   

• Carry out this ‘follow through’ routine with firm and friendly explanations. It is not the time for protracted negotiations or arguments. It’s time to mean what you say.
   

• Don’t undertake this routine if you do not intend to follow through 1001 times in response to the child testing your resolve 1000 times.
   

• The feature of this approach is that it follows a gradual build up of responses from you rather than coming down too hard too quickly to correct a ‘minor’ misbehaviour.
   

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