Anyone doing timeouts

[Motherofmonsters]

Hello,

I've seen lots of things saying you shouldn't do time outs anymore and instead should talk about feelings/gentle hands etc however I've also been watching a lot of super nanny.

DS is 2.5 and thinks everything is a game. He doesn't listen and tends to get overexcited, he seems to get a fog over him and it escalates.

I've started to do a super nanny time out so give him a warning, put in corner explain why calmly. Leave him for 2 mins reiterate why he was put in the corner and then go back to playing.

I think it's having an effect, just wondering if anyone else is doing it and having success

Thank you

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DD is 3 and we do the 'sad step' - it developed from the 'sad mat' they use at her nursery. We use the 1, 2, 3 method of warning her, so if she's doing something we don't want her to be doing, she gets a countdown and choice as to whether she wants to stop doing it or if we get to 3, a couple of minutes on the sad step. She usually stops what she's doing at 2, though sometimes I will stretch to a 2.5

Did it take long for her to understand the countdown?

At the moment he does sometimes stop when I say if you do that again you'll have to have a time out so a countdown might work