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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think facing the wall is ok. If you are actually saying his nose has to touch the wall the whole time, that's a bit over the top.[/quote]
it kinda just morphed into that...one day he was sitting in the designated "spot" and started yelling his sister's name and trying to get her to engage, so DH told him to turn around and face the wall...he did for awhile, then turned back around and started yelling and being a goof and trying to get us to engage with him...so to get him to stop dh told him he needed to keep his nose touching the wall or the timer would start over :shock: yea, it seems kind of sadistic when I type it out! We do tend to take privileges away more often now, but I still do like timeouts for those times when he just needs to calm down and be removed from the situation...[/quote]

It doesn’t sound like this is going in the right direction. I don’t think you are ever going to get to the point where making him hold his body in a certain way for a set amount of time will change the behavior the way you want it to. I think you need to take a completely different approach, keeping in mind what kinds of cause-and-effect concepts a child his age can understand.

Do you have time to be with him while you help calm him down? Hold him or talk to him? [/quote]

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