Four Simple Tips for Using Time Out to Correct Behavior
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Beth Grosshans, a retired clinical child psychologist, emphasizes the need for parents to regain control over child discipline in her tips on effective time outs. She advises keeping time outs brief, ensuring children understand the reasons for them, using them consistently for specific behaviors, and applying them primarily for children aged three to eight. These strategies aim to help children learn and correct their behavior without feeling rejected.
Four Simple Tips for Using Time Out to Correct Behavior
- 1. Four Simple Tips for Using Time Out to Correct Behavior BETH GROSSHANS
- 2. Introduction After more than 25 years of practice as a clinical child psychologist in New Jersey, Beth Grosshans retired from active practice to focus on speaking and writing to parents and educators about issues, such as child discipline and development. Drawing on her experience operating her practice, Beth Grosshans also wrote the book "Beyond Time Out: From Chaos to Calm," in which she asserts that parents must take back parental control in order to help children with behavioral issues and anxiety. A common strategy parents often use to correct behavioral issues is assigning their children a time out. Listed below are a few simple ways to use time outs to correct a child's behavior. 1. Keep time outs short, around 1 minute for each year of the child’s age. This prevents the child from feeling isolated and rejected.
- 3. Time Out 2. Make sure the child understands the reason for the time out. It’s important for the child to understand what lead to the punishment to help them learn. 3. Use time outs sparingly, but also consistently. If time out is the technique used to correct a specific negative behavior, it’s important to use it each time that specific behavior occurs. 4. Use time out as a punishment for children around three to eight years old. Before three, children aren’t quite ready to understand what time out means, so it won’t be as effective.