Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

You Are Welcome

This is how your brain works.
Not yours, everybody’s.
Mine too when it is working.
If you say “Don’t to a child or a husband,”
They have to picture DOING it before they
can picture not doing it.
Often they actually do it, because they have
pictured it.

This is why thanking them for doing the right thing
is much more effective than using Don’t.
“Thank you for cleaning your room today, Honey.”
“Thank you for taking out the garbage, my darling.”
“Thank you for changing the baby’s poopy diaper.”
This works on children, husbands, and wives.

You may pay my agent $100 on the way out.
You’re welcome.

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Kelly Deschler June 9, 2019 at 9:59 PM Caren, there is much truth in your words of wisdom... and I agree, anyone will get more out of another person if they treat them with kindness and gratitude ... Good work, my friend! Caren Krutsinger June 9, 2019 at 11:23 PM Thank you. Brain research proves that when you tell someone to NOT do it they have to do it first, because they picture themselves doing it first. So you are actually to blame when they do it.