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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: Child Health Care. 2009 Jan 1;38(1):23–48. doi: 10.1080/02739610802615831
Examples of Good Instructions Examples of Poor Instructions
“Look at the picture” “Be careful”
“Pull up your shirt sleeve” “Calm down”
“Sit in the chair” “Stop that”
“Give me your finger” “Let’s put your toys away”
“Put your bear in the toy box” “Can you put your toys away now?”