your sentence asked them to touch their tummy first.
That's the trouble with after, when it comes in the second part of the
sentence. It's the second thing that's said but the first thing that happens.)
It's a back-to-front way of saying things. And, not surprisingly, children
don't much like it. They assume that the first thing that's said happens first;
the second thing that's said happens second. They follow the order in which
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