How's the family?
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How do ya’ll deal with discipline?
My girlfriend is big on not doing full timeouts but time away from the thing they were doing with a parent. So instead of being alone they sit with us and we talk to them about what they did wrong. We then let them go back to what they were doing when they've calmed down and we've talked through it a bit.
It's probably effective since we have two kids. So if you take one away the other is playing and it's more apparent to the kid being disciplined they're missing out.
We take away privileges. They’ve never responded well to timeouts. Honestly I’ve been pretty bad about this, I will warn them they are about to lose a privilege but I end up cutting too much slack and I’m not as consistent as I should be.
It really depends on the age but I try to do consequences that make sense for whatever they did. Like if my kid spills water on purpose he just doesn’t get as much water or gets it taken away.