Go to your room, take out the trash, or turn off the television. Parents also use verbal warnings as threats of punishment. Again, this just confuses the situation. Say what you mean or don t say it all. You will get better results that way.
Verbal warnings allow children time to follow a task or make an adjustment to a parental request.
It is not designed to allow a child to wait until the last second before complying with a parent. At the sound of that number, they would spring to life and run to get their shoes on or get in the car. That s when I stopped counting and they started getting to school on time. Verbal warnings must have a consequence if it is to be effective. I have heard parents stretch a three count out to ten or more beats by saying two and a half, two and three quarters, etc.