The key points defining time-out are that the child has no control around when they are sent away, and when they can return. Time-out is often referred to as a ‘consequence’, rather than a punishment. A child is put in a room or place, and excluded from being with others for a certain period of time.Įxamples include the ‘naughty corner’ being sent to another room for a minute of each year of life or being in the same room but separated from family activity. ![]() Her distress, and my experience as a parent educator, drove me to investigate the effects of time-out.įor the purpose of this discussion, the definition of time-out is as a punishment. Most schools and childcare centres rely on time-out to discipline children.ĭuring the years my daughter attended childcare we had several discussions around her fear of punitive time-out. The majority of the parenting books we read, parenting websites, parenting courses, or parents we know, suggest time-out as a benign punishment. This article questions the use of one of the most commonly used punishments - time-out. ![]() ![]() If we use discipline to control, then we rely on reward and punishment to change our children’s behaviour. In our quest to parent effectively, to do the best by our children, ourselves and our family, we think carefully about the best way to discipline our child. Discipline (the verb) can mean either ‘to teach’, or ‘to control’ (Gordon, T. Discipline - the perennial parenting problem.
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