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[quote=Anonymous]My 3.5 year old does this sometimes too. Or bites on purpose. If I can, I physically hold his arms when I see him about to do this. He has always refused to stay in time out so I accompany him to his room, sit with my back against the door (inside), and physically restrain him if he starts thrashing, kicking, etc, so that he doesn't hurt himself or me. When it's really bad I have to carry him kicking and screaming up the stairs, which fortunately I'm still able to do. He usually calms down in a couple minutes. Also wants a hug, like your child, but I insist he apologize for whatever the infraction was before he leaves the room.

I also have a 2 month old. Haven't yet encountered a situation where I've had to seriously discipline DS while alone with the two of them. That would be much harder. I guess in that case I would use loss of a privilege, like screen time or dessert, rather than time out, since I might not be physically able to enforce the timeout if I were trying to deal with the baby. The one rule DH and I have hit on is to never threaten something we won't or can't follow through on. So if I could not physically enforce the timeout or might not have the patience to do it properly (ie sit in his room for as long as it takes for him to calm down and get an apology) because of the baby, I would not threaten it.

Good luck. It's really frustrating, especially because at 3.5 you know they know better and are doing it on purpose.[/quote]

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