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In my experience, the most effective time limit at that age is until you're ready. If the discipline is for refusing to pick up his toys, the consequence is time out "until you're ready to pick up your toys." Then you ask in 3-minute intervals if he is ready to do it or not. This ties the consequence directly to the desired behavior, and lets the child ...

Sending an almost 3-year-old to their room for, potentially, all day seems a bit excessive. I mean, an almost 3-year-old could conceivably lose all five tickets before noon, and by the end of the day he probably isn't going to even remember why he was sent to his room to begin with. But I do agree that your modified plan starts getting a little ...

Personally I think you are already doing the right thing with your early bedtime / 3m solitary approach. I think its important for you to realise that every child (and adult) will play up and be very annoying at times. It is all part of growing up, and learning and establishing boundaries. I think the important thing you need to do, is to be consistent. If ...

You can work on not making it negative since it sounds like that's your goal. Positive discipline calls it a positive time out - invite the child to take some space to calm down. Beforehand, brainstorm with them what/ where would help them calm down. Is it coloring or reading or listening to a certain cd? Empower your child to learn self-regulatory behavior! ...

There's no easy solution, but a good general approach in addition to consistent consequences is validation and teaching an alternative. Kids have feelings and they want to express them, but need to be taught socially acceptable ways to do so. So when he takes your cell phone, validation is acknowledging you understand why he took it. The alternative to be ...

At home we have the same kind of discipline as described in this answer : How can we discipline our toddler ? Basically I have found that the most important thing (with my 2-years old daughter at least) is to : warn first about the consequences do what you said afterwards Basically this would mean in your case (after a first, more casual request) "Son, ...

The purpose of a timeout is to deny a child your attention, since this is what he wants most in the world, and to give him time to settle himself if he is overwrought. The 1-2-3 Magic method suggests 3 minutes for a 3-year-old or until the tantrum subsides, whichever is longer. You should not respond to any calling out from the other side of the door. The ...

My wife and I have had a lot luck with 1-2-3 magic when we stick to it. Even when he was two years old. This involves no screaming or trying to reason with the child just counting for each time he doesn't listen and putting the child in timeout without talking to the child while putting them in or while in timeout. Also after the time is up the issue is ...

Rule of thumb, 1 min for each year of age. We sit them on the stairs. Then briefly explain and reflect at the end of the period, followed by a hug. We do escalate to removing the very limited pre-teatime TV they sometimes watch. Tickets seems awfully complicated to me. edit I just saw a previous answer with a reference to our approach. Dare I say it I think ...