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So is ‘Time-out’ any better than the ‘Naughty step’?
Firstly, I am against the naughty step for a number of reasons...
It gives the child the label ‘naughty’ and kids live up to a negative label. Even if you describe it as ‘naughty...
Have you been in the situation where your child digs their heels in and refuses to say sorry?
This situation is usually worse when it is in front of another parent, a grandparent or worse still, a teacher.
You get a refusal or they say 'sorrreeeee', with no meaning in it at all. This feels...
When kids make mistakes, we feel so frustrated and usually say something like:
‘I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!’
‘WHY DON’T YOU LISTEN TO ME?’
‘NOW LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE. YOU ARE SO XXXX’ (FILL IN THE BLANKS)
So how should we respond?
They have...