Let's talk time outs for 2 year olds.

DD is 22 months.

When I put her in a time-out she leaves her time out space. She literally stares me down, and walks away.

Does anyone have a trick to this? I don't know how else to handle her when she starts to act up.

What else can I do besides a time out??

TIA

Re: Let's talk time outs for 2 year olds.

call super nanny only kidding. I think you are supposed to put her back in the time out chair untill YOu say she is done. she is testing you when she looks at you and sees that you dont put her back on she know she can get a way with it.

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My 25 month old looks at me and runs away!!!

I need to do the super nanny trick but I cant stand there for 2 hrs!!!!

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Posted by babybug631

DD is 22 months.

When I put her in a time-out she leaves her time out space. She literally stares me down, and walks away.

Does anyone have a trick to this? I don't know how else to handle her when she starts to act up.

What else can I do besides a time out??

TIA

Re: Let's talk time outs for 2 year olds.

Re: Let's talk time outs for 2 year olds.

Posted by Melissa77

Posted by babybug631

DD is 22 months.

When I put her in a time-out she leaves her time out space. She literally stares me down, and walks away.

Does anyone have a trick to this? I don't know how else to handle her when she starts to act up.

What else can I do besides a time out??

TIA

her buddy does the same thing

Re: Let's talk time outs for 2 year olds.

DS will not stand still for a time out (hardly surprising since he generally won't stand still at all)! I tried blocking him in his corner after he kept running away over and over again. But something about physically blocking him in a space doesn't sit well with me, even if this is the way to do it.

I used to use his highchair and turn him to the wall. It worked, but he has so many issues with food, I really don't want to have him associate the high chair with time outs.

I'll keep reading to see if anyone has good ideas. I've seen Supernanny do this, and she keeps picking the kids up and puts them back in their time out chair/corner. But they stay put a little bit generally, he will not at all, not for a second.

Re: Let's talk time outs for 2 year olds.

DS is 21 months and would never sit for a time out. I tried putting him back several times and even tried holding him there but he just squirmed and wiggled away. What I ended up doing was taking out the high chair (he sits in a booster seat for meals) and putting it facing the corner of my den. He now gets time outs in the high chair and he can't get out. He knows that is his time out spot and we are actually getting to a point where all I have to say is "do you want to go to time out" and he'll stop misbehaving.

Previously I had tried putting him in the empty pack and play but he had too much freedom to walk around in there and didn't seem to understand the punishment.

I chose to take the high chair out and not use the booster seat because he is a picky eater and I don't want him to associate the booster with being punished, I wanted that to be strictly for eating.

HTH, good luck