Time Out

The "it" word in our house lately... We have been working on our timeout technique over the past 2 weeks and trying to stress the importance of why we are giving a time-out. In the beginning, time-outs were more of a novelty and not taken very serious. David would sit in the "time-out chair" and smile and laugh... not very effective and even more frustrating for us, as we are already a bit on edge from whatever had caused the time-out to begin with! Well we finally
seemed to have a breakthrough!!! Many thanks Erika!!!

We realized that David finally understood the reasoning for time-outs today. Eric was walking with James in his arms and there was a blue car on the floor in his way (clean-up is another story for another blog....). Eric kicked the car out of his way so that he wouldn't trip on it while carrying James. Coming from behind Eric in his Irish whisper came David's voice.... "No kicking Daddy! Time-Out!!" After we composed ourselves we had to agree with David that Eric did indeed deserve a time-out!