Counting to three only works if you're willing and able to do whatever the thing is you said you would do to the child when they are misbehaving. I think it's

Counting to three only works if you're willing and able to do whatever the thing is you said you would do to the child when they are misbehaving. I think it's less that people see a slap on the wrist, and more that people see the systemic, wholesale capture and gutting of regulatory bodies and are not surprised that nothing substantive happens in this kind of case.