Your toddler doesn't really understand the concept of punishment for unacceptable behavior. In fact, a one-year-old learns very little from any kind of punishment. If your aim is to steer your early toddler toward "good" behavior and away from "bad" behavior, neither time-outs nor spankings will do the trick. Put yourself in your one-year-old's place and try to figure out the logic behind eye-for-an-eye punishment: I can't hit because it hurts people, so you hit me and hurt me. Spanking or hitting your child-to stop him from hurting others, for example-makes no sense at all.When the time-out is over, remind your child why you've put him in time-out. Go about your business until the time-out is up (the standard rule of thumb is one minute for every year of your child's age). If you do try using time-outs and your child gets up from the time-out chair, gently but firmly return him to the chair-or ignore him as he tries to win your attention. This makes time-outs very hard for you to enforce. Your child probably doesn't like to sit in one place for more than a second. Time-outs (separating your child from the site and circumstances of his misbehavior by putting him in a specially designated "time-out chair") work more effectively with older children than with early toddlers.What punishments are appropriate for a one-year-old? Let's take a look at two strategies that don't work very well with young toddlers: ![]() ![]() Punishment and Toddlers: What Doesn't Work
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