Really good advice has always been, "you catch more flies with honey, than vinegar", so it seems best to "be nice", until YOU decide it's necessary to be NOT nice.
Gentle (cheerful & consistent) reminders usually get the message across (most of the time), and if they fail YOU decide how far and how fast YOU want to ratchet up the intensity of YOUR reminders.
What YOU want to happen, WILL happen WHEN YOU decide it must. Why start a war over something YOU already know the eventual outcome of?
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