I would watch the videos of parents wrestling their kid into the naughty chair for what appears to be 27 hours while the Benny Hill theme song plays in the background. I don’t remember where I first came across the idea of time outs but I believe it was on Super Nanny. “Sit in the chair for 3 minutes or Mommy will cry. I tried to put pants on her for 3 hours and gave up. “Stop hitting your brother so we can have snack! Why did you stuff your socks in your sippy cup?”

Challenging behavior can feel relentless.“If you play in the snow with bare feet they’ll freeze off and you can’t play with your friends with leg stumps!” I think parents of toddlers gravitate towards the idea of time outs because: During the toddler time out, your toddler will calm down and quietly reflect on their behavior, identifying their contribution to the current situation and changes they can affect to do better in the future. One popular approach is toddler time out: putting your toddler in a chair or some other safe comfortable space for 1-2 minutes. So it’s no surprise that parents find themselves looking for techniques to help manage their toddler’s behavior because toddlers, by their very nature, are often unmanageable. Parenting a toddler can make you yearn for the glorious newborn days where you could just carry your compliant child around with you like an adorable loaf of bread.

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