So I am not a huge "time out" person unless I feel it's really necessary and there have only been a handful of times that I have used it (ie: when she hits her friends) but the other morning she was having a huge temper tantrum after breakfast because Andy and I wouldn't go in the other room and play with her. She always asks to play from the minute she is done eating and we usually tell her to wait a few minutes because we haven't eaten yet, we need to clean up, etc. She usually gets mad, but this morning she was extremely mad. Andy took her over to the front stairs and told her to sit there until she had calmed down. She would get up come back in the kitchen and cry but then go back down and sit. She finally calmed down, we all hugged and went on with our day.
Well yesterday morning right after breakfast the same thing happened. She finished eating, we hadn't yet had breakfast, she asked to play, we said in a few minutes and the tears started, but only for a few seconds this time. She looked at us, stopped said "stairs", "emmy, stairs". At first I couldn't understand what she was talking about, but then she walked right over to the front steps and put herself in time out. We couldn't help but burst into laughter (into our shirts of course)!
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