>The scene: I’m in the kitchen cooking dinner. Bug is playing with the fridge letter magnets behind me.
Bug: “Ow! Mommy, my finger hurt!”
Me, turning to see him: “Oh no, what happened?”
Bug: “Da letter ‘G’ pinched me,” showing me the offending toy.
Me: “It did? Oh no, what a naughty letter ‘G’.” I turn back to the stove.
I hear Bug slap the magnet back onto the fridge, then slide it across the surface away from the others. Quietly I hear him say, “You bad letter ‘G’. You go time-out, two minutes.”
In the days since, he’s also given time-outs to an Ariel pool toy (she bit him), his stuffed blue dog (for falling down off a table), and his Legos (for not being a high enough tower). Perhaps we’re using this form of discipline too liberally?
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