"Time out" and "removing privileges" are of the same ilk, and are basically ineffective because they are essentially bargaining/bribing tools. There is something material to give and take, and worse, you are giving a non-thinking little child a choice when they aren't mature enough to do such things. Not that you can't do the "withdrawal" concept many times reasonably, but to have it as the prime tool has to be ineffective. (This article doesn't tell us that specifically, but I think we can read between the lines - and we see it every day.)
Not really. Time out is an immediate consequence to bad behavior. Removing priviledges is long term reinforcement. There is no bargaining unless you allow the child to chose time-out or a loss of priviledges. The key to time-out is that it has to occur immediately even if it interferes with everyone else's good time.
Dear the OlLine Rebel,
"'Time out' and 'removing privileges' are of the same ilk, and are basically ineffective..."
In that the "time-out" was our principal "big gun," I disagree. Our children mostly behaved when told firmly what was expected of them, but time-outs were what would follow if they didn't behave.
Time-outs, properly organized, are an extremely effective form of discipline. At least they always have been for us.
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