Find a designation, step, stool or safe place for where your time-out will always be. My daughter currently does 5 and my son currently does 2. The child will sit for one minute for each year of his life. My daughter is hitting less and using her words more. I can proudly say after only 2 weeks of using this method my son now sits in time out and only tries to get up once compared to the 15 it took when we first started. I pleaded with my husband to get on board with me and a few new things I wanted to try that seemed to work for this Super Nanny. I can see how it happened with my daughter but here I am fast forward 4 years and my daughter still has time outs. Who knew this whole time I was doing it wrong. The number one thing that she does teach every family she works with is the time- out method. When I say out of control I mean I watched 8 episodes one night that scarred me! I even made my husband watch one of a 9 year old that hit his mother, bullied his siblings and spoke to both parents in a way that had my eyes then fell out of my head. Yes it’s an older show when a Nanny goes around helping families with their out of control children. What’s a parent to do when we don’t tolerate any kind of physical force in our family? I couldn’t stand there and “force” him to sit on a bench, though I may have tried a few times. The first few weeks of time outs with my son was a joke. Enter new sibling and lets just say life changed for not only my husband and I but for her too. I know easy right? No, she just needed a younger sibling to start doing those things with. I was able to tell her we didn’t do those things in our family and she simply didn’t do them. I never had to put my daughter in time out for biting, hitting or throwing things. I knew the second he started walking there was no way in a million years he would ever sit on a time out bench. Let me just say that he put a whole spin on parenthood for my husband and I. Meaning she would sit on the bench and not get up from it until I told her she could. Insert the time-out bench I decided to make. The tantrums had officially begun months before that and I was at the end of my rope wondering what to do with a screaming toddler when I said no to something or she didn’t get her way. Before I knew it I blinked and my daughter was 18 months old. I wait all my life to become a mother how could I not love and embrace every part of it, including discipline. Honestly, I never even thought about the not so fun parts about parenthood. I was too busy dreaming of sweet smiles and picking out pink and yellow butterflies for my daughters nursery. During my pregnancy with my first I never thought about discipline.
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