http://childpsychmom.com/how-long-is-too-long-for-time-out/ Practical Parenting Solutions by Dr. Polly Dunn Sun, 09 Mar 2014 19:55:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://childpsychmom.com/how-long-is-too-long-for-time-out/#comment-6385 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 03:54:20 +0000 http://childpsychmom.com/?p=1802#comment-6385 I was at dinner with some friends and friends of friends… One lady had mentioned how she disciplines her step son and this is what she had to say, “when he was younger I use to use hot sauce on his tongue when he would talk back but now that he is older and he has grown to like the hot sauce so now i put him in time out… He can sit in time out for hours at a time.” she went on to say that “he doesn’t like it of course but I don’t mind…he could stay there all day.” I could not hold my tongue no longer so I said that is not healthy for a child to sit in time out that long. Of course she took offense to this and said that i so quick to judge her and then asked how would i handle a situation if my son came home with three yellow lights in a row… I told her time out was fine but not that long and as for me having a conversation with my child seems to work for me. but she could have even taken something a way for a period of time like tv or a game system or something… and she constantly saying how bad he was.
My question is how long is too long to put a child in time out who is a school age child like 9.

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