When pressured to retract, repeat request calmly same words — don't explain more.

Beyond "good job": a specific 3-part formula linking praise to the actual strategy used.

Create sheet of your 100 key relationships, last contact, next planned.

Repeat the same refusal in the same words calmly, no matter how the other person reshapes the pressure.

Praise your child's effort and strategy, not his intelligence or talent — Carol Dweck's classic.