Time-in has become a bit more common a term over the past 5-10 years and the reason is that our new understanding of growing brains supports it. The old way of thinking about time-out was that when a child misbehaves, they need to go away by themselves and think about what they've done. Sounds good in theory and it's probably what was done to you when you were growing up.
Time out is based on Behaviorism, which is all about how learning happens through conditioning--positive or negative reinforcement. In short, if you reward "good" behavior and punish "bad" behavior, children learn what's appropriate or not. But this theory is missing three important concepts.
Today is Time-In Tuesday and we're talking about the idea of Time-in, both for you and your child, instead of time-out and why that matters.
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