Child compliance
A post I read just made me remember this story.
First, I'm on my phone and English is not my native language so please excuse (and point out) any mistake.
When my daughter was 4 years old, we asked her to let us nap one afternoon. She was always entering our room and talking to us so we told her we'd be locking the door and to let us sleep (there were other adults in the house, we didn't let a 4 yo unattended...).
So here we are, her mother and myself, gloriously napping and suddenly jerked awake by a loud boom as she tried to open the door quite brutally. Since she couldn't open it, she began to talk to us from the other side... 536
And then it hit me! I had THE solution! She loved a game called "Le roi du silence" which is French for "king of silence". Basically, the first one to talk loses. So I began to chant "1 2 3 le roi du silence commence !" ("1 2 3 king of silence begins!") and there is silence on the other side of the door. We smile, we've won! And suddenly we hear "I've looost!" and she continued talking...
We laughed, admitted defeat and said goodbye to our nap. 406