Do you put your toddler in “time out?”

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Nope. We do tine INS and peaceful parenting. 
Time ins- child is being removed from whatever situation that he messed up with, using a gentle voice. No yelling, no cussing, no shaming. Parent and child both sit together and parent explains why we dont do -----(whatever the child did) and what they could have done differently for a different and positive outcome.
Time ins are more effective than time outs. 
Peaceful parenting- no yelling, no cussing, no shaming and hitting (aka spanking/tapping/flicking, popping). Using words and controlling your own emotions as a parent , to have a positive attitude and connect with a child in a positive way, even when they did something wrong.
Peaceful parenting and time ins work a lot better than time outs.

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Occasionally. Most of the time, if I remove her and explain the behavior that I want and what I don’t want, she doesn’t really need one.
If she’s in a full on tantrum, she has difficulty calming down when I try to help her (blow on a finger, take a deep breath, etc.). She needs time to herself to calm down, usually. It feels weird to leave her to figure it on her own, but it’s what works best for her.

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Our daughter will be 2 next month and she's never once been in any sort of time out. We're big on communicating with her when she does something wrong and we redirect her a lot as well. If she can't play nicely with something then it gets taken away. But we haven't done time outs. It's your job as a parent to be teaching them how to effectively communicate and voice their needs and feelings and tossing them in time out doesn't do this.

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I try to model how I want him to act. When he’s having a tantrum, I try to redirect him and tell him to calm down. I try to speak softly and remind him to say please and ask nicely if he wants something.  I used to use time outs for kids I babysat, but usually it would just make me and the child more frustrated, because toddlers especially don’t like to stay in one spot very long. I’m not against time out, but I’d like to help my son learn how to process his feelings. He’s 2. He still doesn’t know how to fully express himself yet. It’s my job to help him learn.

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Yes. We do five minutes but they have to apologize to get out.

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i switch her attention to something else

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I may do time out differently than others but if I feel my child is overwhelmed in a situation or she's been misbehaving, I have her sit in her her bed until she can calm herself down. I then talk to her and ask her why she's acting the way she is, we talk it out until we either come to a compromise or until ahe understands the situation a little better.  (Of course every situatuon is different so there's not always a compromise and she also doesn't always understand why she can't do l/ have something.) I don't shame her, I just simply teach her the appropriate way to act. Otherwise she wouldn't know any better. It works for us.

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We do a minute for however old they are. Ex: my brother is two, so we sit with him on the couch for two minutes in silence, then afterwards we calming talk about why his actions were bad.

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Yep I put my 1 year old in timeout

Do you put your toddler in “time out?”

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