For me its not just no that gets said. Its part of a whole load of words For us it works, and at 18 months it hasn't been a problem. But to be perfectly honest I say "Look at mummy" before or more than anything else as that gets his attention and then we discuss what ever it is LOL! With Paris we just discussed what we should be doing rather than what was happening (which I do with Seth too, but we have to get his attention first LOL). So in reality I'm sure we do things very similarly I just don't really think about how many no's I say because its not the biggest part of the conversation iykwim?

I hope my post didn't make you feel as though you needed to defend your actions as I would never want to do that, just trying to show a different perspective iykwim?