Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 31, 2010
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Stone Soup by Jan Eliot Wally: Joan? Are you SICK? Joan: No... Joan: Max was driving me crazy, so I gave him a time-out. Joan: Just three minutes, one minute for each year of age. TICK TICK TICK TICK JOan: But after that he was STILL misbehaving...so I gave him ANOTHER time-out. Joan: He threw the timer and yelled "BAD MAMA! You need a time-out!!" DING! Max: !! Joan: I was about to LOSE it, but then I thought - Joan: 36 years old. 36 minute time-out! NICE. Wally: He used fireplace charcoal to draw on the - Joan: SHH. I have 13 minutes to go.
James Lindley Premium Member about 14 years ago
I think this is what my daughter does when her kids get too much like Max.
alondra about 14 years ago
Looks like you have a mess to clean up Wally. Around here who sees a mess first cleans it up!
pearlandpeach about 14 years ago
Mom has it right. Wally, clean up the mess and give the kid another time-out….
for all you child developers: whats after time-out.?
stopgap about 14 years ago
No spankings these days. The kids run the show.
i_am_the_jam about 14 years ago
Exactly, Stop Gap. But the PC crowd calls any type of corporal punishment “child abuse” :P What a bunch of idiots.
howhurley about 14 years ago
Spank the child. Get his attention, and put him in his room The PC bleeep is ruining a generation of children. My 14 year old told me the other day that I’ve been “abusing her for 14 years.” I laughed.
“Get the gun, Maude, them revenuers are peekin’ around that tree!”
Read John Rosemond.
Reddheadd about 14 years ago
Violence teaches violence.
lightenup Premium Member about 14 years ago
Good for you, Joan. Sometimes grown-ups need some time to cool off too.
Timeouts shouldn’t be the only tool for discipline, but are good to get everyone to calm down and think about what’s going wrong and how to fix it. As an often spanked child, it isn’t the fix-all tool that some people make it out to be. All it does is make a scared, deceitful, resentful, angry person. You need more than one tool to discipline and teach.
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
A good swat on the bottom with the flat of the hand gets a child’s attention in ways that a Time-Out can’t. But a belt, paddle, switch… Having had that done to me, I could never do it to a child of my own.
kab2rb about 14 years ago
My mom used a switch on me and I moved on. I didn’t use a switch on my kids for that reason but swatted. My daughter would be too ornery for that. But I would never have thought of time out. What I would do if my kids acted up I took them out of the area and to the car and I stayed with them and read a book. I missed meals. My husband never done this. Thank heavens their adults now. I was at a Walmart store and checking out and there was this little girl crying hard in the shopping basket her mother was embarrassed and couldn’t quite her down. When they came after us to check out I turned around and distracted the child while her mother finished what she need on cashing out. Mom was thankful the child forgot what she was crying about and all became peaceful.
Jaedabee Premium Member about 14 years ago
I was spanked when I was growing up. I’m not violent at all, far, far from it. If the other methods don’t work, I don’t see anything wrong with a good spanking. Some children these days are just rotten, and timeouts just simply do not work on them.
MatureCanadian about 14 years ago
Tend to agree with you Fritzoid. Got strapped as a kid for all violations. We got to decide the number, Dad the degree of effort involved. We always discussed the punishment and why it was given. Never in the heat of the moment but after cool down time on both sides. Worked for me and my brother, but we didn’t use it on our kids because it became out of fashion (and against the law in most places.) Think we lost out sometimes. Our kids turned out great, but I think it was sheer dumb luck!
shadowwriter about 14 years ago
somebodyshort : Both.
Kaero about 14 years ago
I’m the worst person to give time-outs. My little short attention span kicks in, and the next thing you know, it’s half an hour later and the kid’s still in time out…
rekam Premium Member about 14 years ago
My mother told me that she and her brothers and sister waited the rest of that week and then her mother would explain all their wrongs of the week to her father and he’d take the switch to each of them in turn. My mother only spanked us when it was absolutely necessary. Otherwise we’d get our cheeks twisted by her fingers hard to make us mind in public. Plus there was always the standard counting to two as in 1, shall I say 2? 1 1/4, shall I say two, etcetera. We’d usually have stopped before she got to 2.
werew0lfe about 14 years ago
peralandpeach says “for all you child developers: whats after time-out?” Punch your Lights out?
yyyguy about 14 years ago
King Edward VIII allegedly said that what impressed him the most about Americans was how well they obeyed their children. if parents abdicate their responsibility to raise their chidren (and that means discipline - whatever form you choose to use), everyone loses.
kab2rb about 14 years ago
I just wished I would have thought of time out I could relax, kids could calmly play and I could read no problem. I so like SS.
This might not work in Calvin’s world though he would find worst things to get in trouble with.
MamaTaney about 14 years ago
Time-outs for parents are as mandatory (and often far more needed) than time-outs for kids!! We all behave badly, we all are in need of time to sit there and let the steam cool off.
IncredibleWerekitty about 14 years ago
More spanking, less time outs.
alondra about 14 years ago
No, spanking is not the only form of discipline but if done right it should be effective. It’s not child abuse if done correctly. You should be calm when you do it so precede it with a time out for about 15 minutes so you cool off and can proceed in a calm manner. Always explain to the child exactly what they did wrong. When you spank them they need to understand why. Only spank enough to hurt but not humiliate. Oh and always do it in private never in front of other people. Do it as soon as possible after the offense. When it’s over with it’s done and over with and you both can go on. Groundings are not so good because if you ground a kid for a week it’s an extended punishment and a parent is gonna have a hard time sticking to it. A kid will wheedle and whine and the parent may weaken. A spanking is over and done with. I think it works best for both parent and child. I was spanked and I don’t bear my parents ill will for it but I’ll tell you, groundings and being made to miss my favourite tv shows caused a lot of resentment. I’d have far rather had the spanking.
TheDOCTOR about 14 years ago
Less Ritalin, more Butt whackin’! Too many lil’ snot-nosed kids need a good Spankin’, however when the kid thinks to call 9-1-1 to get back at the parent then thats when police should step in and talk to the kid about false alarms and let Parents do their job.
vasgar1 about 14 years ago
Spanking is the way to go, not giving in to the child! Also, where’s the husband in all of this? He could step up and take control instead of making his wife handle all of the discipline.
Paul St Aubin over 6 years ago
You ever think that maybe He’s at work and just got home?