cimorene

My coworker asked me to wake the naptime stragglers & Child Who Always Wants Adult Attention was still lying there, unspeaking, even after I made three trips over the next five minutes attempting to request, command and cajole her.

"You won't have time to eat snack with everybody" left her unmoved, as did "Everybody else is up playing already" and "You have to get dressed and eat so you can go outside and play."

Finally I had a brainstorm.

ME: You know, I've already laid out your clothes on the carpet, and your sparkly barrette. If you don't want to wear it some other child might.
THE LITTLE HEAD FREEZES IN A LISTENING POSTURE.
ME: I mean, it's just lying there and everyone else is in there playing, and who knows? One of them might pick it up.
THE CHILD PUSHES HERSELF OUT OF BED AS FAST AS DIGNITY WILL ALLOW AND TOTTERS INTO THE OTHER ROOM TO SAVE HER BARRETTE.