AW: Time-out win!

andyyougoonie

I wanted to wait until DD was 2 to start doing time-out. I actually tried a few months ago and it was a major fail. She turned two a week and a half ago and yesterday, she was misbehaving terribly.  She was throwing her toys (so I took them away), kicking and finally hitting us.  That was the last straw.  I took her to her time-out spot, sat down in a chair next to her, told her why she was in time-out and watched the clock.  She completely lost it.  She cried, screamed, wailed.  When her time was done, I picked her up and told her we would go back to play when she was done crying.  She started kicking and screaming again, so I put her right back in time-out for another 2 minutes.  She calmed down after that so we went back to playing.

After about 45 minutes, she started hitting me with her Pooh doll.  I told her not to hit and she did it again.  So we went back to time-out.  After 2 minutes, when I picked her up, she apologized and calmed down and was totally pleasant the rest of the night!

We have been having an issue with fake crying & screaming (big time in the mornings when she doesn't want to get up).  This morning, she started crying when I put her on her changing pad, but after like 30 seconds, without me even mentioning time-out, she said "M done crying.  M ok."  And we went about our morning routine without a single tantrum!  For the first time in weeks!  It was wonderful!

andyyougoonie

twatley:

Awesome! Congrats!

Thank you! I'm so worried someone's going to come on here and tell me I'm doing it wrong. But it worked (so far) so hopefully I'm not doing it wrong.

hmp1

This gives me hope. We have tried time-out a couple of times and he just laughs at me.

seahorse102410

andyyougoonie:

twatley:

Awesome! Congrats!

Thank you! I'm so worried someone's going to come on here and tell me I'm doing it wrong. But it worked (so far) so hopefully I'm not doing it wrong.

No way.  If it works for you it is not wrong!

CoffeeBeen

  Hooray for a tantrum free morning! 

andyyougoonie

hmp&mrj:

This gives me hope. We have tried time-out a couple of times and he just laughs at me.

Oh yeah, she really didn't get it at all either. I would put her in time-out and she would just stand there, cry and beg for me to pick her up. It was heartbreaking. Then, if I threatened time-out, she would say "OK!" like it was a fun thing.  She didn't get it at all.

Totally different this time.  Thank God.  We've had so many tantrums lately, I was worried if I didn't start some sort of effective disciplinary action, I was going to be raising a sociopath.  lol. 

Yeah, I might overreact a bit. 

jess60

That's awesome!

We've just started doing time-outs as well.  Not 100% consistent with it just yet but the few times we put him in time-out this weekend worked like a charm.

MandaPanda518

So glad this worked! I hope we have a similar results when we get to that point.

FrickandFrack

Congrats.  DS HATES time outs and will stop misbehaving as soon as I reach 2 when counting to 3.  He knows if I say 3 he will get a time out.

ktshoff

Awesome!!! Sounds like you are doing it perfectly!