So open your mouth." Why try coaxing and logic and tricks with children?
Children are more sagacious than we are.

They twig soon enough if there is a flaw in our own intention and our own true spontaneity.

And they play up to our bit of falsity till there is hell to pay.
"You love mother, don't you, dear ?"--Just a piece of indecent trickery of the spiritual will.

The great emotions like love are unspoken.
Speaking them is a sign of an indecent bullying will.
"Poor pussy! You must love poor pussy!" What cant! What sickening cant! An appeal to love based on false pity.
That's the way to inculcate a filthy pharisaic conceit into a child .-- If the child ill-treats the cat, say: "Stop mauling that cat.

It's got its own life to live, so let it live it." Then if the brat persists, give tit for tat.
"What, you pull the cat's tail! Then I'll pull your nose, to see how you like it." And give his nose a proper hard pinch.
Children _must_ pull the cat's tail a little.