If you want someone to listen and understand your reasoning, give your interests and reasoning first and your conclusions or proposals later. Tell the company first about the dangers they are creating for young children and about your sleepless nights. Then, they will be listening carefully, if only to try to figure out where you will end up on this question.

And when you tell them, they will understand why.

–Getting to Yes

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