Do timeouts help or hurt kids?

May 15, 2017 Elizabeth Meade, MD

Timeouts can be used to teach and discipline kids, but they aren’t effective when an angry parent imposes a timeout in the heat of the moment. Here are situations where timeouts can work, and how parents should model the behavior they want to see in a resistant child.

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