You know what kids do when you can’t hear them. They get LOUDER. They do not retreat. That gives the listener all the power.
Wherefore the saying, “Can you hear me NOW?”
I was going through PPV movies on the TV in the FREE section was an actual movie called Barack Obama. I clicked and watched the preview thinking it was an expose’. It must have been made 2 years ago as people were singing praises to him and chanting yes we can and they directly compared him to the second coming of MLK. I know people that voted for him that now regret it. Black and whites. The above poll numbers IMO are way too kind on the black Jesus failure.
Not saying this is the right approach at all, but it’s when the kids get real quiet that most parents (who care) get worried.