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Time-Out Guidelines
- Determine the time-out setting:
- Safety first
- As boring as possible
- Identify one priority misbehavior
- Use a timer
- Explain time-out to your child:
- Time-out is going to improve behavior
- What time-out is
- How the time works
- How the timer works
- Describe the priority misbehavior (give an example)
- Use time-out as part of a plan
- Be consistent with time-out
- Stay calm when you use time-out
- Use a chart to keep a record of progress
- Initial episodes may be difficult (extinction burst)
- 5 minutes if you cooperate
- 10 minutes if you do not
Put little ones in Take away the treasure:
- Until the time-out is done
- Until the time-out is done plus 24 hours (or a reasonable added time)
Start fresh-redirect (if the misbehavior is over) or Your child still has to do what is asked (if he went to time-out for refusing a request) Use Delayed Time-Out
- For inconvenient times
- When away from home
More on: Discipline Strategies
From How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too!. Copyright © Sal Severe, 2000. Used by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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