At what age should a child start getting time outs?

Question

My daughter is 10 months and never had one.

Answer 1

you have to make sure they're old enough to understand what time out means, if you just sit them in the corner or wherever without them knowing why, they won't understand

Answer 2

When your child is old enough to know right from wrong, that is when you introduce her to time outs. The best method to help her understand and not frustrate either of you is, time out should equal one minute per year. For example she is almost one year young so she should sit for one minute. Explain to her before punishment what she has done wrong. Then after talk with her and explain why what she did was wrong and the consequences. Patience is the key word. She IS just a child, a young learning little girl.

Answer 3

You should start letting her know when you don't agree with something that she is doing so she can start to grasp the concept of "no", but I would wait until she is 12-18 months to start a time out. Your daughter may not even know how to walk yet and she certainly won't understand what time out is just yet.

Answer 4

I don't think it's effective until 2 or 2 1/2, depending on your child. Before that, I'd take away an object if she wasn't using it correctly. For example, if she was hitting someone with a doll. I'd say firmly, NO HITTING! and then take away the doll. If she was playing with the DVD player, I'd say, "NO TOUCH" and move her away from it. If you have to, take her to another room.
They say that time out should be 1 minute for each year of your child's age. My son is 2, so we do 2 minutes. I didn't do time out until he was 2 1/2.
That's my opinion.

Answer 5

10 months is still too young. I started time out for my oldest daughter when she was about 3 years old. She was not really mischievous or getting into trouble when she was younger than that. If she got into something she was not supposed to then it was part of my negligence. Usually I would tell her no and then divert her attention to something else. But when you tell them not to do something and they still do it and they know it is wrong then you will want to put them in time out.

Answer 6

I'd say probably at about 2-3yrs of age. Or it depends on what the situation is. I think that any chile under the age of 1 is too young to understand about timeouts. But you should start your child at a young age. It just depends on who you are and how you feel about it.

Answer 7

At ten months old your child isn't going to know what time out is or what it is for. And isn't going to sit or stand long enough for that matter.I realize parenting is difficult, I have a son myself, but maybe we as parents should try to spend more time with our kids and they would not do things to get attention that need discipline. They just want as much attention as possible. Give it. But in a positive way.

Answer 8

I'd say about 12-24 months. But it depends on the child! Whenever you feel the child KNOWS she is doing something wrong, a time out is appropriate.

Answer 9

So what is a 10 month old doing that would require a time out?

Answer 10

I have learned that it makes things easier if you start early. as soon as my daughters were old enough to understand yes, no and dont do that, it was time. to me if they understand and do something after being told know then by all means PUT THERE LITTLE BOOTIES IN TIMEOUT !!! my mom looked at me when she came in and seen my 11 month old sitting in a chair facing the wall, i told her you visit and leave i am stuck with them so unless you plan on taking one dont tell me how to discilpline. And she droped it !! good luck !!!

Answer 11

I think I started time outs at 2 years old. It certainly wasn't as young as 10months. I don't think my son would have understood what was going on that young. Redirection still seemed to work pretty well at that age.