The DIY Timeout

I rarely had to do timeouts when Sophia's bed was still in crib form, but I was still worried where she would go during timeouts after the change because I didn't know if she would stay put. Well, one day I had her sit on her bed until she was ready to "be nice" when she was being especially disagreeable. It turned out to be fine because she already is trained to stay in her bedroom at sleeping times until Franco or I go to retrieve her, so she waits the same way during a timeout. Sometimes she'll yell, "I ready to be nice now!" but she'll still wait on her bed to be released.

Now she has started putting herself on timeout.

When she is feeling disagreeable, like when she doesn't want to wait for something, she'll sometimes say "I go sit on my bed!" and go running down the hallway. After a minute or two she'll call down the hall, "I ready to be nice now!" or "I ready to listen!" and I'll yell back that she can get up. This started happening just this week, so I doubt it will last, but we thought it was so funny.