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How do you start timeouts?

erin.merin.m
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DS, I feel, is starting to get to that point.  I tried last night after he yanked my hair for the second time and then threw a toy at daddy.  I sat him down, and of course he wouldn't sit still for more than 5 seconds. The redirection isn't working anymore.  He just goes from one no to another and back.  When did you start timeouts?  What works for you? How long before LO "got it?" TIA
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Re: How do you start timeouts?

  • aqua_loveaqua_love

    dd is 16 months old now and we actually walked in on our daycare doing one in may and we've been doing them ever since. 

    nothing too serious as i'm more the redirectional type, but when she does something serious or repeatedly, we nicely tell her she's in time out. then we just sit her on the couch and let her calm down. one of us usually sits with her and makes a "stern" face to let her know she's done something wrong. periodically she'll try to get up or laugh or be a kid, but most of the time she just sits there taping her hand. after a minute or two we make her come "talk" to us and give us a hug and then let her get back to her business.

    idk if she's still too young to understand, but with most things we just trying to start a routine/pattern so when she does understand we've already laid the ground work. 

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  • lzybeanielzybeanie member
    With DD we haven't started timeouts exactly, but when she starts throwing a tantrum (i.e. throwing herself on the floor and flailing like a fish out of water) and it goes on for more than a minute I usually pick her up and sit her on this one big chair in our living room. Oddly enough, that's what calms her down...we don't tell her she's in a timeout exactly, but we do put her there and tell her she needs to calm down. When she's calm enough she usually gets down herself and starts playing, which is fine at this point for me since my goal is to get her to just calm down. If she gets down and comes to me tantrum-ing again, I just put her back in the chair. The few times she wouldn't calm down after a few minutes I did go and sit with her to make sure she stayed there, but I didn't talk to her until she was calm. Not sure if this is what you're looking for...some people I know have said that you can do a timeout in their crib, which will keep them contained, but some people don't like using their sleep place as punishment. You could use a PNP with a similar effect I suppose.
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