We just started doing time outs with R.
So far they have only happened on two occasions after she'd started flinging food off her high chair during a meal. We've found that when we look at her sternly and say "No!" she thinks it's hilarious.
She doesn't think time outs are hilarious, though. We do them following the advice of our pediatrician, where we hold her in our laps facing the wall, don't look at her at all, and keep her there for about a minute.
So far I don't know how effective they are as a deterrent but we've only done 2 so far.
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good luck with that!
ReplyDeletetime outs can require a lot of patience and perseverance..consistency is the key..
not that i had a great deal of experience with them..
i really like the "nanny" (JO) , she has good ideas on how to handle difficult situations..
if they work as well as they appear to on the show that is..
another idea she had for time out was to have a time out rug/mat (which are also portable and can travel with you if necessary.. but rosemary may be too young for this yet..
Wow discipline...I am interested to hear more about how this works out. Do you give warnings about it first? Like "stop doing X or you are going to get a time out"?
ReplyDeletewe aren't really very coordinated with the time out thing-- still very much figuring it out. there hasn't been much that we've felt *needed* time out-- she is really responsive to our requests to stop doing certain things, and redirection has been very effective for us. but the throwing food is something I want to teach her to handle differently- if she doesn't want something, give it to us, don't throw it on the floor, kind of thing. I don't know if we're using the concept of a time out wrong, either. Like with the post I made about grabbing glasses (above) that might have been a better time-out kind of situation? Ah well, we'll get it sorted eventually, right?
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