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[quote=Anonymous]Timeout for a toddler is just sitting still. The best thing we ever did was get one of those 2-minute sand timers. You know, the kind that look like an hourglass, with sand on one side, when you flip it over the sand pours to the other side, calibrated to 2 minutes. When DC was ramped up like that, he just had to sit in a chair on the side of the living room, with that timer on a table in front of him. He could visually see the 2 minutes counting down. If he acted up mid-timeout, we got all the sand to one side and started it over. Toddlers don't understand clocks, but they can see sand flowing. It took a few tries of restarting the timer, but he eventually learned that it was easier to just wait it out ... and he was remarkably calmer after 2 minutes of sitting. [/quote]
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