My children are very familiar with this simple phrase. I use it often and ask them often how we obey with them repeating this phrase. We expect first time obedience from our kids. No counting, no asking again. We have become a little slack on this lately, so this week will be a huge reminder for us to tighten up on them a bit as their obeying becomes slack when we do. There is a consequence when they do not obey right away. The other half of this is “all the way.” Saying, “Please stop what you are doing and come over to me,” does not mean, “Stop what you are doing and stand at the door staring at me.” It means, come to me. Putting your shoes away doesn’t mean throwing them in the closest. It means putting them in a cubby. We don’t want to have to ask over and over again for exactly what we want while they play a little game with partial obedience. Partial obedience is still disobedience.
Thanks for sharing! I am still following your weekly character development skills and will be joining you for sure for this one this week. I too have noticed that my boys are struggling with obedience right away, all the way.
Cool, Trina. It’s amazing how you think you got something fairly under conttrol, and then it backslides a little bit again. I think this will be a good week for us.
We do this same thing but I love the “all the way” part… need to add that!
My toddlers know the words obey and disobey very well! 
Have you read Sheperding a Child’s Heart? I love that book… I love how it explains disobedience as a heart issue! I also notice that when my boys begin disobeying more is when I have begun slacking in expecting first time obedience! yikes… 
Mackenzie