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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the risk of appearing a bit too new, I don't like the punishment of sending kids to their rooms.  Kids are 5 and 7 and punishment is usually something like taking away electronics. I would also send them to their room if they were out of control and tell them they can come back when they get it together.  My 5 year old behaved very poorly on Saturday so I took electronics away for the weekend.  DH found out about it on Sat evening and he wanted to start Sunday off by making 5 year old stay in room for half the day or a couple of hours on Sunday.  I don't get the point of this punishment.  Is it to say - you're behavior was so bad I can't even be around you?  You don't deserve to be with people?  Is he supposed to be 'thinking about what he did wrong' as my parents said, because I doubt that would be happening.  I say, give him the consequence but don't put him in solitary confinement.  How long would one expect a 5 year old to stay in a room alone?  I don't think that's reasonable.  I'm pretty sure in a few years they'll just go stomping off to their rooms, so the problem will solve itself, but in the meantime, what to do?  We did not confine him to his room, by the way.

What do you guys think?[/quote]

NO way.  I prefer to use natural consequences and link the consequence to the behavior.  There is no way that a 5 year old is mature enough to understand why they have to be in their room for half a day, or even a few hours, especially not if the child's supposedly "thinking about what he did."  If the behavior involves electronics, take away electronics.  If it involves inter-personal relationships, nobody interacts with the child until the child is willing to be civil.  Etc.[/quote]

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