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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And what if you don’t have anyone to give you a break? Like millions of parents?

It’s not my situation but it’s the reality for many. I’d say it’s the norm.

So we can do this exhausting dance of parenting or we can the time out. Timeout all the way. [/quote]

Show me one parent who was on the brink and time out saved them. This is nuts. You can do “gentle parenting” with some form of timeouts if you want! And time outs don’t fix all of your parenting problems any more than hitting kids would, or a nanny, or anything else. [/quote]

Again the primary gentle parenting advocates are against time outs.

More importantly, setting up a discipline structure that the parent and child understand and is predictable - like a one minute time out for pre-defined behavior- in fact removes a huge amount of stress. Because it is predictable, does not rely on the parent having some specific state of mind, and generally shows results in changing behavior quickly. [/quote]

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