Will giving my 1 year old a time-out help?? 1st time mommy!!?
My 1 year old runs up to our entertainment stand and keeps turning my husbands XBOX 360 on and off several times during the day!
I tried talking sternly to her, telling her "NO" but she thinks it's a game! She wants you to chase her to it-- (She laughs when i say NO and get up to chase her before she can get to it). I tried ignroing it but she keeps doing it!
So today i started putting her in her room inside her pack-n-play with no toys for between 5-7 minutes... she hates it and she cries (duh), but will this get the point across or should I try something else??
Thanks you!!!
TJS2011-12-23T12:30:41Z
Well you made it a game... so now it is one. Just tell her when she turns the xbox on she will go to time out. Just put her a little away from you for a minute. 5-7 min mean nothing at this age, it is too long, and she won't remember.
This is your "coffee table" as I call it. It is always wise to have something harmless to have as a training ground to teach her how to follow the rules. Better than the street!
I also would just put the xbox up myself or redirect to something else, but on occasion a time out will get the idea of one through. It won't be terribly effective yet, but it is never too young to set the process out.
Is she 12 months one year or over 18 months one year? Just wondering b/c at 12 months I don't think time out would work, but it deffinately would by 18. You know your kid and rather or not she understands things so trust your gut. If she is doing it when you tell her no and running from you to do it then she knows she is pushing a boundary in my opinion. But to be honest I don't think a video game console is important enough for a kid to get into trouble for. If I were you I would have my husband unplug it evertime he is done with it so that it will not matter if she turns it on or not. Things that you can fix so that it does not bother you so much when she messes with it are things I would not punish over. Things that cannot be moved, on the other hand, are things to focus on and punish for.
I do understand your frustration but a time out is never supposed to succeed the age of the child, your child is one so a time out shouldn't even be longer than one minute, also time outs are not effective for babies. With that being said you have two choices, one move the game system out of view and redirect your baby's attention. The child is too young to understand why she is in the pack and play and how that correlates to the game system. Redirect, redirect, redirect is the best thing at this age, redirect her to something else and distract her.
She has no clue why you're putting her in the pack-n-play. She just thinks that you are abandoning her. Time outs are for older children. Redirection is for one year olds and early twos. You need to put things out of her reach that you don't want her touching. You are the adult. You have the control. You cannot expect her to remember not to do things yet. She's way too little.
At 1, I really don't think they get the concept of time out. I think your suppose to use redirection, like when she does it you put her somewhere else and give her something else to do. We always unplugged the 360 and put it up, all my husband would have to do is get it out and plug it in when he wanted to play, not that hard lol. I didn't start time outs until 2,