When it's time to correct your child's behavior, use "Grandma's Law," timeouts and forgiveness in discipline. That's the advice Dr. Randy Schroeder provides in this video. If you're wondering what "Grandma's Law" is, it goes something like this: "when you finish your chicken and vegetables, then you can have the pie I baked you." Dr. Schroeder goes into more detail about using "when you, then you." He also explains that timeouts may be a very popular method of discipline, but instead, or even al

5 Difficult Truths That Shifted My View of Timeouts as Discipline I used to believe timeouts were a ‘gentler’ alternative to punishment. I thought they taught kids to calm down, reflect, and do better next time. But the more I learned about child development and the nervous system, the more I realized that timeouts weren’t the teaching tool I thought they were. Here are 5 hard truths that changed everything for me: 1️⃣ Timeouts don’t teach self-regulation. They teach kids to suppress emotions al