I was experimenting this new creative technique to get through my son, and make him use less (as he says) scary words. I guess this is going on in his pre-school because most of moms were complaining that their sons are making scary voices and using words like, beat, break, kill,
Great job! It's so hard to stick to something like that, but it really does pay off in the end. I've found the only thing that works for my daughter (5 in May) is a time-out. I make her sit on her bed and I set the timer on the oven for 5 minutes. As soon as it goes off, she knows she can get up and play again. She also knows that if she gets up sooner than 5 minutes, or she makes noise, I add time to the timer. I've tried tons of different ways to discipline, but this one seems to get through the best.
It's a good thing that your daughter responds to timeout. It's a lot easier that way. I had never had success with timeouts. It just makes things worse in hour house. Well you have to do what works for your kids.I created this when I saw a specialist in TV saying that kids like praise to punishment but they prefer punishment to ignorance.