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Does your toddler like to "play" time-out?

Christmasbaby18Christmasbaby18 member
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I've only ever put my child in time out twice (for kicking me).  She's also had a time out a couple times with her in home DCP (for hitting other kids), but now she thinks it fun.

Often during dinner she will put her feet up on the table and then say she needs a time out.  I'm not sure how to handle this, I usually suggest that she just put her feet down and keep eating with us but she will usually insist so I let her go, but then if she does it again I tell her she must be done eating and I tell her she should just get down from the table.  

Any advice about this? 

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Re: Does your toddler like to "play" time-out?

  • shamwarishamwari

    Not sure what to do about the dinner thing, but just wanted to let you know timeout was a disaster for my son. we did it twice  too and immediately it became a game. I have read that some kids simply do not respond to it. 

    Finding something that does work....well that's a whole other ball of cheese! 

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  • Christmasbaby18Christmasbaby18 member

    It actually does work for her (I think).....she's usually really well behaved so it's not really necessary, but at times she will start to have a tantrum and decide she needs a time out...then she loves to come hug me and say she's sorry and then the tantrum is done.  And she will stay in her time out spot until I tell her to come out (always 2 minutes or less).

    As far as at meal times, today at lunch she did it once and when I told her she would have to be done if she went to time out again, she said she wanted to eat some more so she stayed.  But then at dinner she did it twice and then was done eating ( I think she just wasn't all that hungry.....I saved her dinner at the table but she never asked for it again). 

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  • *sallymad**sallymad*
    Hmmm is it a tactic to get up from the table? Or do you allow her to get up and dow from the table?
    DD is required to stay at the table and eat. If she gets down she's done. So if she did something like that we'd say go ahead and put yourself in a time out but your plate is going in the sink. Normally she'll stay, but sometimes she'll leave and her plate goes in the sink.
     
     
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  • jesspacatcjesspacatc
    K will go sit in the corner and face the wall and say "I in time out.  hands on thighs".  This must be something that they do in daycare, but whatev.  She usually does this when she doesn't want to do what I want her to - get dressed, eat, etc.  If that's the case, I just leave her there and 30 seconds later her "time out" is over.
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  • sunnyday016sunnyday016 member

    She plays TO by putting her animals there for the same offenses she gets put there for. It's kind of funny :P

    For you though, it sounds like she's using it to get out of sitting at the table. My DD sort of does the same thing- she'll choose TO over doing what I'm asking her to do (like helping to clean up). It's very frustrating to me. 

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