Your Parenting Mojo - Respectful, Research-based Parenting Ideas To Help Kids Thrive

Time Outs: Helpful or harmful? Here’s what the research saysPediatricians and researchers commonly recommend that parents use time outs when kids misbehave.  Time outs are promoted as an effective, evidence-based parenting strategy - although the real reason they’re so highly recommended is that they cause less damage to children than hitting.But if we’re already using respectful/gentle parenting strategies most of the time, could there be any benefit to adding time outs when our children don’t comply with more gentle methods?This episode delves into the research on:Which children and families researchers think time outs are effective for(it’s not the same group of children who are usually study participants!);The precise time out script that has been shown to be effective(and why it works);Whether time outs harm children or not(this is one of the biggest controversies in the Gentle Parenting world)If you’ve heard that time out is an effective strategy to gain children’s cooperation but weren’t sure whet