Choose your time-out location in advance of the time you need it. 

Spoil & Discipline Child

Time-Out Location Choices.
A Discipline Series.

Written or compiled by Jan Wilson

Remember: Timeouts are meant to be unpleasant. 

Choosing a Timeout Location.

Remember that for the time-out penalty to be effective, it must be unpleasant for your child.  Also, timeout does not work well after you have lost your temper and/or yelled at the child. You need to be calm, cool , and collected  yourself when administering a timeout.

Also keep in mind that you are not trying to frighten your child into submission. You are trying to:

• Put an immediate halt to an inappropriate behavior.
• Take away something (freedom and attention) that your child wants.

Choose your time-out location in advance of the time you need it. When a child is misbehaving, you want to be able to stop the behavior immediately, not make a decision about where to send the child.

Choose your time-out location in advance of the time you need it. 

Your Home

1. Choose a location where you can send your child every time you must invoke time-out.

2. Choose a boring spot away from all action and any attention from other family members.

3. Choose a location that can be reached quickly.

Try not to use the following places:

Basements or dark closets:
These places are too scary to be used for timeout.

Kitchens or bathrooms:
Too many potentially dangerous objects in these areas, such as knives, poisons, hot water, etc.

The child's bedroom:

It's never a good idea to reinforce the idea that there is something bad about the bedroom. You also don't want to associate punishment with a place your child sleeps. Besides, there are usually too many fun things to do in his or her bedroom for the choice to be a punishment.

Home of Others

When visiting others, use a porch, a hallway, or the back yard.

Public Places

A restroom or even your car will work in a public place.

Don't leave your child alone in a public place. Although you'll still ignore him and withhold your attention, keep him well in sight.

Caution

If your child suffers from separation anxiety when you leave her, use a time-out spot that is not isolated from you. 

Again, you are not trying to scare your child, only provide him/her with a place to get unacceptable behavior under control.

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