DS gets 3 min time outs in his room. A few times, he's take his pants & undies off and pee on the floor during the time out. He's only been in undies for maybe 3 months I think, so accidents do occasionally happen. But this he's definitely doing on purpose. I'm at a loss on what to do and how to react. Any advice is much appreciated!
Re: For those who do time outs
DD tried this a couple times, as an attempt to get out of doing the timeout. I made her help clean it up, and then she had to start the time all over again. After the second time, I put a plastic potty right next to the time-out spot. Once she had no excuses and realized the cleaning up would only extend the time-out, it wasn't a problem anymore.
And I'd second the suggestion to find a time-out spot where you can keep an eye on him, instead of using his bedroom.
Can you do a time out chair? Maybe a chair that isn't in a room with a television or other form of entertainment? We can't do this with DD because she would just get right up. Maybe she is too young to understand that "type" of time out. We still put her in her crib for time outs.
As I read this, I'm not sure this is helpful at all
I personally wouldn't do this, because if you associate the actual bathroom with "I'm in trouble/bad bad bad" it could possibly lead to anger, or even regression, over the potty itself. Then again I have ridiculously stubborn kids, but that doesn't mean it couldn't work for others.
This. Move him somewhere he's seen.
DS started doing this shortly after PTing , though not during time outs, and making him clean up his own mess definitely helped curb this bad habit.
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I was totally thinking this!
Put him in the corner and stand in front of him so he can't escape.
He only gets time outs when he hits, kicks or throws things. So usually if it gets to that point, he hits. Then what?
This is what I have to do with DD. Then she only gets a couple steps before I put her back. She gets bored with it much quicker and will sit for the TO.