Many of you may not have your own children, but I am sure you interact with some on occasion, and may have some in the future - so I want to let you in on what experts say the correct way is to give a child a time out.
We all know that kids do things that we as adults should probably reprimand, like hitting others, climbing on furniture, not sharing and screaming at unusually high decibels. When these behaviors persist, adults are told they need to correct the action immediately to ensure the child understands that this behavior is unacceptable. The steps of giving a time out are:
1. give the child a warning, getting down on their eye level, let them know that behavior is unacceptable
2. if the behavior persists, the child needs to be placed in a "time out spot" and must stay there for as many minutes as they are of age (i.e 2 years old, two minutes)
3. A timer is set so the child isn't in time out for too long or too short
4. Adult approaches child, gets down on their eye level ask the child if they know what they did wrong, if child doesn't respond adult will explain why that behavior is bad
5. the adult is to ask for an apology from the child to whomever he/she hurt
6. the adult needs to ask for "loves", a hug and/or kiss
This is a suggested process of giving a time out to help little ones correct behaviors that are unacceptable.
I wish this would work with puppies. It makes children sound so much easier! Obviously they aren't but "experts" make correcting them seem so simple.
ReplyDeleteI don't have kids yet, but I will remember this! I know when I babysit my nieces and nephews I don't know the exact protocol when they are misbehaving, but I'll do this next time with them. Thanks for the tip!
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