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Tracey,
You don't want my advice! haha! I'm from the Old School School of Parenting. Time outs are fine for some situations, I guess, but in my experience, they don't work long-term. To be perfectly honest and uncaring of political correctness, I started spanking my children (hands, thighs, rear-ends) when they were very young. When my son would reach for the fireplace tools, I would say NO. I would give him two "no's" before I walked over and smacked his chubby little hand. He start equating "No" with the stinging sensation and then learned to heed the word NO. At some point, they understand when Mom says no. I realize that in this "new" day and age (eye roll), some parents buy into the psychologists who say that spanking or smacking the hand somehow damages the self esteem, or somehow teaches the children that hitting is OK. Not true. I now have 3 very well-adjusted, law abiding, happy, centered, moral children who don't fight--even with each other. I...
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