Would you ever use exercise as discipline?

[MagdasMadHouse]

So, I've been thinking about discipline techniques, would you ever use exercise as a discipline technique?
I think the sulking thinking chair/space doesn't work for all kids, and that maybe some thinking time whilst doing something more physical might work better? But I don't want to feel like a boot camp drill instructor either! Where's the line? Is it ok to send a teenager for a walk or bike ride, but not send a toddler to do burpees?

Taking exercise and the resultant benefits should not be associated with punishment.

I'm talking about school age children not toddlers. My toddler I of course concentrate on time in and redirection.

I'm an ex teacher. Just because it works as an outlet for you doesn't means its suitable for a child as a discipline strategy. The association you will build cognitively is negativity around exercise. The planning revenge child needs reinforcement of values around empathy, right & wrong & apologising. The forgetful child needs reminder prompts & not too long time outs.

Even school aged children don't have the brain development required for the introspection you expect them to do during time out. The prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for hypothetical, critical and rational thinking doesn't fully develop until much later - 20 years old! If you send your child away from you to think about what they've done, that's not what they will be doing. Not because they're naughty or defiant, they just aren't able to.

So sure, use exercise if you think it'll help, but in a "let's go outside for a runabout" kind of way, not "I don't like how you're behaving. Go outside on your own and run around until you calm down".

Absolutely not. It's borderline abuse in my opinion.

I wouldn't expect them to be able to process it all, that's not the point of time out of the situation. The time is to get some breathing room more than thinking time. The thinking time is the conversation afterwards where you are reasoning with them.

I frequently threaten my two with Joe Wicks if they don't behave!

Going for a walk, yes. And I’ll sometimes say that we need to go for a walk because we are winding each other up - that gets played by ear. Normally it takes 200m before we can chat nicely.

But we go for a walk most days. So it’s just “let’s jump to the going for a walk part of the routine because we need it” rather than something that only opens in the face of grumpiness

It's still separation from you as a punishment, which I don't think helps them.