Time Outs

The smart parent's guide to coping with your kid's fits.

...If you're the parent of a toddler or preschooler, chances are that time-out is one of your frequent... discipline strategies. And if you're like many parents, you may lament that it doesn't really work. Time-out... Chidekel, PhD, author of Parents in Charge (Simon & Schuster). Here's how to do it right. Time-out is a...

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...In my family, time-outs work so well that my 4-year-old recently told my 6-year-old to take a time-out...-and-true. "For some children, time-outs are a joke," says Larry Koenig, Ph.D., author of Smart Discipline: Fast... chair for ten minutes. In cases like that, the time-out doesn't modify misbehavior one bit." If you...

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Award-winning author, Michele Borba, EdD, recently appeared as a guest on Parents.com Community boards to offer practical advice on children's behavior and violence prevention. This sought-after, motivational speaker has presented workshops to more than one million participants throughout North American, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, and has served as an educational consultant to hundreds of schools. She currently serves on Parents magazine's advisory board. The following is her advice on how to help children handle anger.

... Trenton, then 4. "There was much shouting," he recalls. "It was difficult to keep my son in time-out.... What he found was an eye-opener. First, Dr. Banks learned that he was doing time-outs all wrong. "The...." The clinical evidence also showed that time-outs don't work unless parents practice time-ins -- positive...

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