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The study, based on a survey of parents through community based doctors in 32 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Canada, found the most common form of discipline was using time-outs, with 45 percent of parents using this method.

Use of the game term "Time-out" implicity suggests to the child a percieved lack of seriousness on the parents part.

[steadfastconservative]

Time-outs are an ineffective form of discipline, especially with young children. They need something immediate and unpleasant. Being sent to a bedroom full of toys or being put into a corner for five minutes is not unpleasant. And if the only consequence that the child suffers for leaving the time-out area is to be taken back to it, that quickly turns into a game that takes up the parent's time without teaching the child anything.