#160 The Trouble With Time Out with Alfie Kohn

Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families · Nov 16, 2020 · 16m · transcript

Topics discussed in this episode:

The history of Time-Out

Praise and rewards, just like punishments, are really about power

The positive reinforcement we're removing during time out is LOVE

Time-out ruptures your relationship

Time-out communicates the conditionality of our love

We have to work out a way of doing things WITH children, rather than doing things TO them

Children should be loved for who they are, not what they do

What to do instead?

We need to move beyond behaviour

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