How To Disipline A One Year Old
January 23rd, 2008 | 
Author: As a rule we don’t disipline Eilidh much, yes she is told no and not let to run wild but we do not beleive in spanking and feel time outs for under twos are not necessary.
For Rebecca we use time outs, just a minute or two (normally ends up being 30 seconds) . We just use a corner, any old corner in the room we are in. This is something we proberly don’t use enough at the most a couple of times a week , most of the time just the threat of the corner is enough to curb the behaviour.
Sometimes when Eilidh is naughty (and for anyone who knows Eilidh will know how much this kid likes to push my boundaries already) we have been using the threat of the corner to hopefully make her stop. Once or twice she has ended up in the corner although we never enforce it and she normally just wanders away.
Lately we have been noticing a new trend, she does something naughty (repeating hitting daddy this morning) and when we mention the corner she apparently agrees. The little stinker puts HERSELF in the corner, in no way could it be called a punishment - she laughs and giggles and loves every second. She stays there for much longer than we would ever make her before running into my arms (a big part of the time outs we feel is love afterwards).
What am i suppose to do with her? For all her craziness im *so* lucky to be her mummy 
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January 23rd, 2008 9:00 am
LOL! Very familiar! Nadia used to put herself in time out, too, and laugh the whole time. She hates it now. But I know how challenging a livewire like E can be!
January 23rd, 2008 9:03 am
Self-imposed time-outs - what a novelty!
For Stinkerbell, we would place her in a chair at the end of the hall, with the door shut in front of her. We required that she calm down before she was allowed up. But before we let her up, we always sat down next to her - in the time out chair - and told her we love her and that what she did was not acceptable and that she need to not do it again and hopefully get an apology from her.
We went through a phase where she was very defiant. Clearly pushing her boundaries and refusing to do the necessary things in order to get up fromm time out. We put in a video of her favorite tv show (Little Bill) and would watch it very loudly and talk about it
“Oh, that Little Bill! Isn’t he the funniest thing!”
“Look at what he’s doing now!”
“Don’t you want to get out of time out so you can watch Little Bill with us?”
It took only a few times of “torturing” her this way for her to figure out we meant business. From then on, she was much more compliant about time out.
Lucky turns one this Friday. As for discpilining him, we take things away from him that he shouldn’t have and remove him from places he shouldn’t be. But when he throws a tantrum (Very rare), we find it funny. We TRY to hide our amusement, but to see such a SWEET, good-natured little thing like him stomp and kick and scream is funny in that out-of-character way. When we simply say “no” he’ll shake his head at us and smile. If we make that “aaaaannnnnn” sound that means “no”, he’ll do it back at us.
January 23rd, 2008 3:40 pm
Have you thought about making her look you when you tell her no? My son didn’t do well with time outs, so we spank. That’s been very effective.
January 23rd, 2008 4:08 pm
I think your policy about telling them how much you love them after a time out is good. That’s funny that she enjoys the time out. My mom brought me my baby book to read after I delivered Little Elvis and when I was two, they got me a tricycle. I refused to ride it or get near it and she threatened to give it my cousin and I told her that was just fine with me.
January 23rd, 2008 11:17 pm
We have tried everything with Lorelei… the only thing that works is getting in her face and telling her no in a very low mean voice or smacking her hands… but we have to do that because she figured out how to take the covers off the electrical outlets and was climbing our almost floor to celing bookcase… and the only way timeouts would work is if we duct taped her to the spot… she just runs away… lol…
January 24th, 2008 1:41 am
That is a very hard age to discipline. You sometimes have to get very creative. My 3 year old has no problem heading to the corner. He sits and sucks his thumb and hangs out. Arghhh. One day I was so fed up, that he sat there and comforted himself after he hurt the dog. That I took his thumb away. I took one of his coats and put a hair tie on the sleeve and put it on him backwards. He had to wear it until he was ready to say he was sorry to the dog. He hated it. I have used it to this day when he hurts someone. He cannot have his thumb until he apologizes. When my first was that little, I would hold his hands if he hit with them. I would tell him that he couldn’t use his hands until he stopped hitting. It stopped pretty quickly. He wanted to get back to playing.
Hope that helps.
January 26th, 2008 5:59 pm
We put Lila in the corner for one minute when she misbehaves too much. Sometimes she puts herself there, lol. I guess it’s not a terrible punishment after all!
January 29th, 2008 10:43 pm
My littlest is one also - almost 17 months - We are constantly telling him no and time outs don’t work for him because he doesn’t stay. I don’t believe in spanking a child that young, so I’ve resorted to putting him in time out in his crib. I put him in, leave the room for one minute, then get him. It seems pretty effective.