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groovygrl
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anyone use PNP for time outs for 1-2 yr olds?
groovygrl
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Just wondering, I'm reading Happiest Toddler on the Block to try to get ready for discipline & positive reinforcement techniques and he advocates practicing short time outs regularly after the age of 1 but since those kids won't sit on a step or whatever, he recommends using a playpen to keep them contained.
My question is, if you use a PNP and then you want to use it when you travel for them to sleep or something, won't they associate the PNP with time out & have trouble sleeping in it?
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Re: anyone use PNP for time outs for 1-2 yr olds?
confession-I use her crib sometims but not all the time she hasn't had bad feelings towards sleeping in there but I was wondering about that too.
We haven't done TO's yet and I don't know if we will. We'll see.
I would personally try to avoid using the PNP or crib, though. DS really likes hanging out in his crib and will do so for as long as an hour when either waking up or falling asleep. I like that he LIKES his crib, and I really do not want to associate it w/ anything negative.
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I agree at this age timeout needs to be confinement because they would not stay on a spot until they were about 21 months old. I used a small hallway area going to our downstairs powderbath, I put up a gate in front of it and closed the bathroom door and this made a square space for them.
Once we moved into the new house and didn't have that option, I made their superyard into a square only and that was time out for about a month until I was able to get them understanding they had to stay on a spot for timeout.
Can't say about using a pnp for timeout because I never used one myself. But I do know my BFF used hers this way for her 18 month old that was going through a biting phase at the time. But she was not traveling and using it for sleeping as well.
Maybe you could buy a cheap playplen off Craigs list or at a yardsale and use that specifically for timeouts in your house, so they don't associate their own pnp as a place for other than sleeping.
I do use a PNP for time out but I also have 2 others ones that we use for travel which looks nothing like the one we use for TimeOut! It works because there is no way you can a little guy/girl to sit still on a stair! We leave the PNP we use up in our playroom/tv room and they now if i say TIME OUT that is where they go but we have no issue when we stay at my mothers or any where else that they are in PNP!
i should also mention Jordana has never had a time out, i tell her no once and she doesn't do it again! Preston on the other hand is in TIme out a lot! He is my aggressive child. He mostly goes in TO for doing something to his brother or sister! It is wierd because he never does anything to anyone else though!