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Originally Posted by Catherder:
I just finished close to 16 hours of "Discipline and Punishment in the Childcare Environment" training this week. I am required to "sugar coat" punishment, now. "Ignore bad behaviors whenever possible"...yep, you heard it correctly.

Mine get calmly "redirected" to the "soft seating area" to "calm down". It is all a vocabulary lesson... "Time-Out" is a bad word and is not to be used at all with children under 3, here.

Funny how it is exactly the same procedure as Time-out, but with softer terminology.

We are required to sugar coat discipline too. I think that technically, we can still use te term time-out but I don't anymore.