We ask Paela to do or not do certain things on certain occasions. Call it "discipline", if you will.
For example, one day during dinner Paela was banging her fork repeatedly on the table. We asked her to stop banging her fork. She was asked several times, until I caught her arm on the way down to the table and grabbed her wrist to keep her from banging (again). I asked her to stop banging her fork (again). For a moment or two she stopped, but I sighed inwardly as her arm came down once more to bang that fork of hers. This time, however, it was not my hand that stopped her fork's progress. Paela reached across her plate with her other arm, and grabbed her own wrist before the fork made contact with the table, and sternly told her hand "no banging."
For the rest of the meal, her other arm kept the discipline in check.
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