She gets on the bed and lies back and waits to be told what to do, and you understand, quite suddenly, that this is the only way she has ever been able to ask for anything.

MioneTell me. I am much better at this when somebody tells me.

So you tell her, and she is very good at it, and she does not once ask whether she is doing it right because she can hear that she is.

MioneThat is the thing I could not cross off the list. I like being told. I have liked it for years and I have been calling it being helpful.