I never was a huge advocate of using time out as a means of disciplining the kids. Why? It did not work, in my opinion. I spawned the kind of children who would punch holes in the wall as they stood screaming in the corner. I have the kind of kids who know how to wear me down by getting out so many times that I finally give up or forget that they were ever in the corner, in the first place. It just wasn’t worth the headache it gave me to keep the perpetrator in the corner long enough to …read more