Distracting your child with a toy or a song can help prevent or stop misbehavior. Some behaviors like crying or whining can be ignored. Time-out is not used for all misbehaviors. Time-out works to change problem behaviors because children don’t usually like to be bored. She cannot interact with her parents or anyone else. She does not get any attention in time-out.
Your child is away from all things that are fun. Time-out is when your child is removed from where the misbehavior happened.
