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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 523894" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>My Mom has the Look down perfectly. She terrifies husband and the kids (husband mostly, but I've never seen the kids do something twice after the Look).</p><p></p><p>husband says I do pretty good with it. Unfortunately it does.not.work. on Jett - because first I have to get him to look at me. Which a normal tone of voice does not do. Due to prior mothering, I must scream at him. I asked him why, because I do NOT like screaming. Why do I have to scream for you to DO ANYTHING? He shrugged and said he didn't know. I've tried the lowered, clipped voice... Scares the bejeebers out of Onyxx. The dog will sit down out of the way immediately. Cats freeze. husband stops in his tracks. Jett? Blithely does whatever it was he was doing. Pointing, snapping fingers, none of that works on Jett. Only screaming. Which is horrible because I HATE HATE HATE it!!!</p><p></p><p>My Dad. He has the lowered voice down perfectly. One of our coworkers (we worked for the same company years ago) once told me that he was terrified of my Dad because he never knew whether he was in a good mood - so I gave him a hint. Dad loves his Tony Lamas, wears them a LOT. So I told Greg - when his voice goes down an octave, he gets really quiet and you can <em>hear</em> him walking... RUN. I do this occasionally, but it doesn't work on Jett, or on a raging Onyxx. (In fact, it seems to make Onyxx rage more, because clearly I am in control of myself, and she's not...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 523894, member: 6705"] My Mom has the Look down perfectly. She terrifies husband and the kids (husband mostly, but I've never seen the kids do something twice after the Look). husband says I do pretty good with it. Unfortunately it does.not.work. on Jett - because first I have to get him to look at me. Which a normal tone of voice does not do. Due to prior mothering, I must scream at him. I asked him why, because I do NOT like screaming. Why do I have to scream for you to DO ANYTHING? He shrugged and said he didn't know. I've tried the lowered, clipped voice... Scares the bejeebers out of Onyxx. The dog will sit down out of the way immediately. Cats freeze. husband stops in his tracks. Jett? Blithely does whatever it was he was doing. Pointing, snapping fingers, none of that works on Jett. Only screaming. Which is horrible because I HATE HATE HATE it!!! My Dad. He has the lowered voice down perfectly. One of our coworkers (we worked for the same company years ago) once told me that he was terrified of my Dad because he never knew whether he was in a good mood - so I gave him a hint. Dad loves his Tony Lamas, wears them a LOT. So I told Greg - when his voice goes down an octave, he gets really quiet and you can [I]hear[/I] him walking... RUN. I do this occasionally, but it doesn't work on Jett, or on a raging Onyxx. (In fact, it seems to make Onyxx rage more, because clearly I am in control of myself, and she's not...) [/QUOTE]
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