The power of 1-2-3
On February 1, 2012
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Grace was moaning about eating her food while we were having supper tonight. After a little while of trying to get her to eat some more and plenty of moaning Donné said to Grace, "If you keep moaning then you are going to go to timeout." Grace kept on moaning. "Grace, I am counting to 3, and if you are still moaning you are going to timeout."
"One."
Moaning.
"Two."
Moaning getting louder.
"Three"
Silence.
Timeout is working very well for us at the moment. If we tell Grace she will have to go to timeout then she usually corrects her actions, and if she does end up in timeout it seems to be a time of centering and she comes out with a totally different attitude. It fascinates me how effective it is.