I put DD in her crib for timeouts so she can't escape. Where do you put your toddler?
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We haven't given LO a time out yet.
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@chopsuey119: I think M is too young yet!
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@Andrea: My SIL/BIL started time outs really early! Their youngest is 17 months old and she knows what time outs are already..
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@chopsuey119: naughty kids. HAHAHA.
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You know, ever since LO started crawling, I've been trying to figure out where in our house will house her "time out" spot. Am I mean????
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We use the mat inside the front door for my stepson. We can keep an eye on him via the reflections off various pieces of furniture or just by walking from the livingroom to the kitchen. He has to sit facing the door bored out of his skull, LOL!
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We use the recliner in our living room, but I'm thinking we may need to find a new spot since DD can still watch TV and other things going on in the house. She is 27m and apparently knows the concept of timeout well enough that she was doing something in the church nursery and after being told to stop she went up and sat in one of the rocking chairs.
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@Rubies: but she hasn't done anything yet, just crawling?? haha!
@Mrs. Mousie: I always wonder how you get them to stand/sit in one spot out in the open? I feel like my DD wouldn't at this point.
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It's usually right outside the laundry room.
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@Andrea: I'm just saaaaying...You can never be too prepared, right? HEhehehehe.
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@Rubies: you just want her behave and not need any timeouts!
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My son is 14 months old and right now he gets put next to a wall. Usually we walk away and come right back. But the other day he dumped out the dog water and we put him there and kept him there until we cleaned up the water.
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@Andrea: The fear of god. LOL!!! The power of reflections is awesome, if he moves or finds something to play with and we catch him in the reflections, we call him out on it from the other room and he gets this look on his face like "How do they know?!?!?!?!??!" We also started that the more he goofs off in time out, the longer he has to stay there. That was more effective as he got older though.
We had a hard time with him throwing tantrums and kicking the door when he was 3 (ugh), there was very little we could do to stop that other than ignore him and wait for him to calm down or move him to another room and tell him no one wanted to listen to it. That was a REALLY rough year.
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DD's time out spot in in front of the book case, in the living room. If she gets up, we just put her back and restart her time (Super Nanny style!). So far, it's been pretty effective.
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@Mrs. Mousie: haha, How do they know??? That is so funny. I'll have to try and find a spot like that. How old is he now?
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@Andrea: He's nearly 7. I do the reflection thing all the time, it makes him nuts! We have a bench at the dinner table on the side he normally sits on, and he always pulls his feet up on it while he's eating, but we're sticklers for good table manners, and even though I'm sitting across from him, I can see where his feet are in the reflection of the piano. He's SO puzzled at how I always know when his feet are up on the bench. Next weekend he'll have a chair
It'll be a sad sad day when he figures me out, LOL!
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My time out spot was on the stairs. It had to be away from everyone because that was the most effective punishment for me. I wanted to be around people and never miss out on anything. So knowing that I would be separated from the crowd made the threat of time out effective. My parents also had hard wood stairs so they could hear me if I was moving around or doing something I shouldn't be doing while I was in time out. We have carpeted stairs and the stairs aren't as secluded in my house as they were in my parents house so I don't know yet where time out will go down at our house.
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We use the bottom step of the stairs. Our place is small and the stairs are centrally located so we can keep an eye on him from anywhere on that floor.
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@Mrs. Mousie: I'm sure you'll figure out another way to outsmart him. Parents have to be crafty!
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We haven't done time out yet! I can't figure out what is bad enough behavior for a time out. The only incident where i thought a time-out was needed was when he dropped his blocks on the floor and wouldn't pick them up. While I was thinking about doing time out, he went and picked them up.
@andrea: What are some bad behaviors that may require a time out? (I know it's a weird question but it's hard to tell sometimes!)
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@banana: I generally do it when all else has failed and she is really not listening to me. Like the other night she wanted to eat dinner in the living room in front of the TV. I don't even know where she got that idea from because I never let her do that. Anyway, she was throwing a fit so I put her in timeout for 2 minutes since she is 2. After the timeout, she sat and ate her dinner in the kitchen, as usual, with no further complaints.
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@andrea: Oh I see...Yeah, I guess the blocks incident would've been one of those time out opportunities but fortunately he picked them up on his own. I'm curious to see how well time out works for my son. What does your daughter do during time out? Does she cry or does she just sit there and sulk?
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@banana: she cries like a maniac! It is so sad but she comes out of it behaving.
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@andrea: Glad it works! My son is beginning to act up now (starting the terrible twos) so I see lots of time outs in the future.
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@banana: I also do a lot of counting (magic 1-2-3) to get her to obey. That works very well, too.
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How long are your time outs?
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@autumnlove: I have heard 1 minute per year.
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