JenJar

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• JenJar

  February 2010

  Yep, we started about 4 months ago, but it didn't go well at the beginning.  First, we tried having a certain blanket on the floor that was his 'time-out area.'  Our dr suggested that since we could take it with us if we traveled and he'd be familiar with it.  Loved the idea....Gavin didn't.    He would just run away laughing.  (And as bad as it is, I'd end up laughing, too.) 

  We finally started using a dining room chair.  When I can tell he's going to do something, I warn him.  "If you hit mommy, you'll have to sit in time out," or "If you throw that car at the tv, you'll have to sit in time out."  If he still does it, I immediately take him to the chair and tell him, "You have to sit here because you ____.  Stay here until I come get you."  Honestly, it took a good month of an occasional time out before I didn't have to keep putting him back on the chair.  Now, he doesn't cry, or laugh, or get up and leave.  He'll sit there for the minute and a half, and he usually calls out for me, but I just go on doing what I'm doing and ignore him.  I'll go back after the 90 seconds and just say, "Thank you for sitting in time out.  Mommy loves you but you can't ____." 

  I hope that helps.  I think it takes some time, but I do think they can understand at this age. 

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• wendyj member

  February 2010

  Did you have screaming crying fits? That's what I'm getting. He gets so hysterical.

  

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• JenJar

  February 2010

  He started out running away laughing.  Then, when we moved to the chair, he'd get off crying.  I wouldn't classify them as crying fits, but he definitely cried.  I just kept putting him back on the chair.  Sometimes it took a half hour to get him to sit for 90 seconds.

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