I am often saddened to see parents believing that they are using a time-out procedure to reduce bad behaviors, when they are actually accidentally rewarding them. As a result, these parents and their children are engaged in an upward spiral of frustration, damaging behaviors and chaos in their homes and elsewhere.

The skilled use of a real timeout procedure, among other love-based teaching methods, is a natural and marvelous way for parents to reduce stress in their own lives, teach their children self-control and to also be normally well- behaved and successful in social settings.