“So, for example, instead of saying, ‘Get your feet off the couch’, it’s more helpful to say, ‘I’d prefer you not to put your feet on the couch because the mud gets on and I have to wash the covers’.”
If the child is old enough to understand mud has to be washed off the couch why is mom or dad doing the washing?
Very good.
(But the ‘wokeists’ might think that making a child at all responsible would be a sort of slavery...)