#160 The Trouble With Time Out with Alfie Kohn

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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