Archive for June 28th, 2009

(And, in case you’re wondering, the irony of the exclamation mark at the end of that title isn’t lost on me.)Parenting breakthrough today. This was big.

Bug went to timeout today, like he does seemingly every day.Our timeout rules consist of the following:

1. Timeout doesn’tstart until you’re quiet (i.e. Pitch your fit, scream and yell, do whatever,but you’re still stuck in timeout for x number of minutes after you’re quiet).
2. Timeout time = 1 minute for every year. Because Bug isalmost 4, it’s 4 minutes.

So, Bug was …

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