HELP! My ds is soooo hard to get through to. Trying to give him a time-out is awful . . . he has to be carried there (while he grabs on to things and tries to generally impede progress), he will not stay in his room, doesn't care if I reset the timer over and over and over again and is rarely even phased by the process. I'll ask him why he had a time-out when the timer goes off and he often can tell me why, but there is nooooooo indication that this is going to make him think twice about doing the same thing in the future.
I am reading Kid Cooperation by Elizabeth Pantley right now, and I like her ideas of natural consequences etc, but am still unable to make time-out work for us. Does anyone else have the same problem? Should I give up on time-out altogether (it is much more frustrating for mommy than ds - he actually has fun trying to interrupt the process). I don't want to stop time-outs because it just seems like certain misbehavior naturally needs a time-out as discipline (like running away from mommy - which he does OFTEN).
I guess my problem is that everything that I've read about time-outs assumes that the child just passively goes and sits there for the three minutes - not my guy! :LOL
Any suggestions?
I am reading Kid Cooperation by Elizabeth Pantley right now, and I like her ideas of natural consequences etc, but am still unable to make time-out work for us. Does anyone else have the same problem? Should I give up on time-out altogether (it is much more frustrating for mommy than ds - he actually has fun trying to interrupt the process). I don't want to stop time-outs because it just seems like certain misbehavior naturally needs a time-out as discipline (like running away from mommy - which he does OFTEN).
I guess my problem is that everything that I've read about time-outs assumes that the child just passively goes and sits there for the three minutes - not my guy! :LOL
Any suggestions?