The difference between plan A and plan b is power. Typically in an adult's eyes it is the adult that has the power in a classroom or in a parental role. Which is technically true, but when the role of the adult is to simply impose force on a child instead of teaching the child the skills necessary to go through life, the adult is no longer productive. It is not the adult's responsibility to assert dominance, it's the adult's responsibility to guide the child through life and give them the skills they need to no longer need a guide. There are instances where plan A is the easiest plan to go through in the moment, for instance if there was a cell phone being used in my class and I just said "put it away" and then there was a power struggle with a student. Instead, for plan B, using this as a teachable moment, tying the idea of a phone or the function of the phone into the lesson. So I could have responded with "hey, can you look something up for us?" therefore there is no power struggle but there is also a lesson on how to really use a phone in a classroom setting in an appropriate way.
