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I think you need to pick one choice of discipline (time out corner, time out chair, time out in room) and stick with that. You told him to sit in the corner, and he said no, and so you tried to make his punishment different to appease him, which makes him think that punishment should be what he wants it to be. He probably thinks you'll keep coming up with options until you find one he likes. And that kinda goes against the point of discipline.
I would have done the supernanny thing and directed him to the corner. If he didn't go, I would have picked him up and placed him there (getting down to his eye level and telling him once why he is in the corner) If he kept coming out of the corner, I would have continued to quietly, without speaking, pick him back up and place him back in the corner until he had sat there for the amount of time he is supposed to (typical is 1 minute per year of age). Then I would have followed up after his time was up, with explaining why he was in the corner (or you can ask him to tell you why he's there) and why his behavior wasn't appropriate.
Last edited by Charity : 04-06-2007 at 07:12 PM.
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