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�" Situation �"“Jimmy, where is your lunchbox? How many times do I have to remind you . . . ?”
“Betsy, put your baby sister down! Haven’t I told you . . . ?”
“Margo, marking pens aren’t allowed in the living room. If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a hundred times . . . !”
�" Solution �"
Who is the slow learner?
“How many times . . . .” “Haven’t I told you . . . .” “I’ve told you a hundred times . . . .” Don’t you have to wonder who the slow learner might be here? When we do the same thing over and over, with the same results time after time �" maybe it’s time to rethink what we are doing?
If you have to remind little Jimmy, day after day, to bring home his lunchbox �" whose job has remembering the lunchbox become?
When Betsy walks across the kitchen holding her baby sister, what are the chances that she doesn’t know that this is forbidden?
If you have told Margo “a hundred times” not to bring marking pens into the living room �" has she missed hearing you every time?
Of course, we all forget and do things we should remember ...