024 - Are Timeouts Bad For Kids?

Have you received advice that if your child misbehaves, you should give your child a timeout?

But the moment you scroll through Instagram or TikTok, you see an entire slew of experts telling you that timeouts are bad for kids. All this is adding to parental guilt because it feels like whatever we do, we're bound to get it wrong.

Whether we do timeouts or not, there's somebody telling us that we're doing it wrong, and that's why in this episode I address this sticky issue: Are timeouts bad for kids?

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