A short YouTube lecture by Ming @ Agents of Speech explaining why children sometimes don't listen: children test boundaries to learn limits and may use actions, emotions, or cute faces (or fake crying) to get needs met. Ming frames this behavior as a survival/learning strategy rather than deliberate naughtiness and emphasizes that parental consistency and clear limits reduce manipulation opportunities.
Are you a person that is respectable. You say something that means it and you're going to stick to it no matter what. If a child can test your bottom line, right. I don't know how to say it in English. They test your limits, so to speak. They know where and what buttons to press and so on. Doesn't mean they're doing it like on purpose. That's how they survive, literally. So don't think oh my kid is so naughty or whatever you've given him the opportunity or her the opportunity to think in a way that I can manipulate you with my emotions and my words and my actions and therefore they will take advantage of it. Because if a child isn't able to speak very well then they will think of other ways to get what they want. And naturally sometimes that's manipulating you with their cute faces which happens a lot. They wouldn't manipulate you with fake crying, which happens as well.
