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Timeout a Classic Form of Discipline That Actually Works, Study Confirms

by Tom Henderson, Posted Feb 2nd 2011 12:00PM

Child acting up? Timeout may be the best course of discipline. Credit: Getty The next question, class, is multiple choice. Would you rather discipline your misbehaving child by: A. Spanking him? B. Forcing him to drink hot ...No one expects (or needs) the Spanish Inquisition. Timeouts work just fine.
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Quarter of Parents Don't Discipline Kids for 'Easy Life,' Survey Finds

by Lesley Kennedy, Posted Feb 22nd 2010 8:00AM

Three in 10 adults say they're pushovers when it comes to disciplining their kids. Credit: RachelH_, Flickr
Time out may be getting its own time out, as 25 percent of parents responding to a recent survey say they don't discipline their children ...
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Family Board Games, Divorce and More - Links We Love

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Apr 29th 2009 9:00AM

Keep kids busy on those rainy spring Saturdays with some family game time. Here are 15 favorite family board games. Guaranteed to be more fun than 10 games of Candyland in a row. -- LilSugar Whether you're worried about swine flu, the economy or ...
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Secrets of a Leftover Lover

by Angie Felton, Posted Nov 20th 2008 9:00AM

As if working full time and trying to keep the monthly household food budget at Depression Era-esque levels wasn't challenging enough, I'm also learning how best to deal with a husband suffering an extreme case of leftover aversion, an apparently ...
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Ice, Ice Baby!

by Angie Felton, Posted Nov 17th 2008 9:00AM

When Thomas Paine wrote, "These are the time times that try men's souls" he was talking about the beginning of the American Revolution. However, Mr. Paine could have just as easily been describing what the upcoming week has in store for parents ...
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Mom tattoos

by Angie Felton, Posted Oct 27th 2008 9:00AM

When I was growing up in the 70's, the only people I ever saw with tattoos were on older men who had been in the military and carnival workers. Even in 1994, when my 1 year old son barged in on my sister, who was taking a shower, and saw her ...
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A Rose by any other name ... would probably annoy Grandma

by Angie Felton, Posted Oct 23rd 2008 9:00AM

Baby name books like to say that one of the first gifts you give your child is their name, totally overlooking genetic gifts like a mathematic deficiency, inability to draw a straight line even when using a ruler, and an aversion to the texture of ...
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Things that go bump in the night

by Angie Felton, Posted Oct 20th 2008 9:01AM

There is a point in life when horror movies make a person feel that there is nothing as frightening as what might be lurking in the dark. However, once you get pregnant, attend birthing classes, and learn what is about to happen to your ladybits, ...
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Halloween costumes - The real October surprise!

by Angie Felton, Posted Oct 16th 2008 9:00AM

It doesn't get near the fanfare of Christmas, but I think that Halloween is truly one of the most wonderful days of the year. Not only does it involve the least amount of effort of all holidays, (requiring little more than the contents of a dress-up ...
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Cabin Pressure

by Angie Felton, Posted Oct 9th 2008 9:00AM

As a college student, I learned about the various stages of grief outlined by Dr. Elisbeth Kübler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. I've done a bit of air travel over the summer and one thing I noticed is how parents' ...
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The case of the Cafeteria Bail-Out

by Angie Felton, Posted Oct 2nd 2008 9:00AM

Not only did I have the very good fortune of marrying a man with a built-in intuition for when to bring home a bar of dark chocolate, he's also a finance professor. This means our television is generally parked on strange channels with endless ...
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Somebody needs a time out

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 5th 2008 1:56PM

Ikea has produced some pretty funny commercials in recent years. This one, I'm sure, resonates with most parents of small children. Called "Time Out", it depicts a mom trying to get some work done and getting fed up at the screaming and arguing of ...
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A return to time-out

by Sandy Maple, Posted Dec 3rd 2007 2:01PM

When Ellie was very young, we used the time-out method to address misbehavior. An offense such as talking back would lead to at least five minutes spent in a chair in the den by herself. She always went willingly, sometimes sitting quietly until time ...
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Do your methods of discipline work?

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Jan 6th 2007 4:06PM

I always feel like I'm one step behind when it comes to discipline. Just when I've found something that works, my daughter, Edan, figures out a clever way to thwart me. Last month I started counting in a 5 in my most ominous voice, threatening a time ...
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"I've been getting calls like this since he was three years old"

by Jen Creer, Posted Sep 15th 2006 10:31AM

I have three children. All of them are very different, and very individual. My two older sons are very well-behaved, very charming, aim to please, well-liked by their peers and teachers, excellent students, get good grades, and do not routinely argue ...
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