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MrsARC1105

The girls are almost two and we are dealing with hitting.  Hitting each other and hitting me, it hurts darnit! How do you handle discipline at this age? We do timeouts but it is hard because the offender gets more worked up because she sees her sister playing and she is stuck in the timeout chair.

courtneyaok

When I was growing up, time out was always in a different room, away from all the action -- we had to sit in the "quiet chair" and weren't allowed to talk until our time was up.

SoldiersGreenBean

Time outs are done on the stairs, where there's nothing fun to do (and DD can't see most of the play room).

Realistically, though, time outs don't do much in our house either.  Instead, what worked for DD was telling her that if she needed to hit, she could hit herself.  Same for biting.  If she wanted to bite herself, that was fine, but it was not polite/it hurts when you bite other people.

She'll very rarely hit herself (usually in the stomach or on the head), but I've never seen her bite herself.  She did stop biting me, though.

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i would keep doing time outs - for just 2 minutes or less.  at that age they just need a small break.   If they were in school/daycare they'd see 10 other kids playing while they are in time out - so this is not a twin-specific thing - they need to learn how to deal with it - and tehy will - just be consistant.