Timeouts

michaela080 · February 2014

Tell me about your timeouts. Where do you put LO? Do they stay on their own? Do you confine them somehow? Do you have specific places or chairs for it? Robert has decided he is going to start exerting his will.

michaela080 · February 2014

Today I sat Robert in a spot where he couldn't see the TV and I had to kind of hold him there by putting my hands on his shoulders. And I didn't look at him or talk to him during the minute or so. But is holding him there bad? I don't know how else to get him to stay.

mama0226 · February 2014

I strap Elena into her highchair to contain her, I set the oven timer for 1 minute and leave the room.

michaela080 · February 2014

jerseygirl6411 said:

So far we have just stood in the corner with Colin cause he will definitely escape. I recently just made a time out stool which we haven't had to use yet since I made it. Here's what it look like.

OMG, so cute! I am now looking up time out chairs on etsy for ideas. We will probably need one for each floor.

punkyshoester · February 2014

We just started using time outs for when he hits. He has a little rocking chair that we use. We take him by the hand and sit him in his chair and say "we don't hit. You are in timeout now. Stay there." He is usually upset knowing he upset us, and that keeps him put. He just sits there. We only do about a minute or so, go back in and say "we don't hit. It hurts." and ask for a hug. It's been successful so far. There was only one time that he was flipping his lid and I figured he was too upset to take anything away from it at that point, so we just walked away.
Maybe if you just keep it up, he will learn?

KarmB · February 2014

She sits on my lap. We can't do stools or chairs because she loves those.

nesenotes · February 2014

I make her sit on the floor with me behind her facing a blank wall. I also set a timer to 90 seconds. It's a huge battle. I put her arms to her side and keep turning her to face the wall when she tries to turn around. It's normally a shit show lol. But i don't let her up till the timer dings that way she doesn't think I randomly let her get up because she is losing her shit the whole 90 seconds. Sometimes she will get up and hug me and sometimes she will be mad at me and run off. But it does change her behavior for the better immediately following.

It has been nice to have a threat. It did work the other day when I asked if she wanted a time out when she tried to bite my mattress in anger. She stopped mid bite and said "no bite" and walked away.

sarahandeddiejune212008 · February 2014

I sit her in the recliner, but I stay near her. She doesn't really understand the concept yet. Right now we are more doing it for practice. Timeouts really aren't all that effective for kids under 2 in most cases.

alphahelix · February 2014

We do exactly what @missmusic described. I actually just bought the supernanny book and we're going to follow that - 2 warnings, followed by a timeout (1 min for every year of age), then explain what she did wrong, ask for an apology and give hugs and kisses, go back to playing as normal.

We have a spot in the kitchen where she can't reach anything and she usually stays there when I put her, but if she does get up I just return her to the spot without saying anything and start the timer again.

michaela080 · February 2014

This weekend I can tell Robert's mind is growing and he is going to the next level of personality. He is being more affectionate than ever, but also not stopping things like pushing buttons on the air cleaner or touching the TV even when I get up and move him away. He has also started swiping/hitting either when he is mad or because he thinks it's funny. He is also sleeping a ton, so I think his brain is just growing. I think he gets the time out idea because he used to stop when I would say "do you want a time out?" I think he learned it at daycare from hearing the bigger kids being put in time out. But now I need some sort of real consequence since he is not stopping after several warnings.

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