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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Time-Outs; Do They Really Work? : Ideas for Women Home and ...

As parents we are charged with disciplining our children. Many of us have given time-outs (and some have forgotten to let their children out of the time-out after the timer goes off.) The question is do time-out really work? Do your children honestly learn anything from? time-out?

A time-out is meant to remove a child from a situation and placed somewhere where he or she can think things over about the way to act differently next time. Time-outs have become a form of punishment. While the child is removed from the situation they are seldom calmed down, there is no follow-up discussion or instruction. Instead in the end everyone is upset and emotions run high because the time-out has become a battle of getting the child to stay where they should making the time-out pointless.

Time-outs in our home are handled a little differently now because, like I said, someone forgot once and a ten minute time-out turned into a four hour time-out. First when a situation arises we tell the child responsible the behavior is unacceptable and they need to take a time-out. They are told they need to leave the room and may return when they are calm enough to discuss the problem. This gives them and us a chance to calm down a bit. When they return we ask why they did whatever it was and tell what the appropriate behavior is.

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