Time - Out

Dean loves time outs. This is something I never expected. Of course we hold him in our lap and count aloud for the time out so I guess it's appealing to him. He also loves the discussion when time out is over explaining to him why he got a time out and then he gets a hug and a kiss. I always ask him to say sorry too, but he has yet to do it. He usually just smiling too much looking at me. So whenever he's doing something bad and I tell him no and to stop a couple of times. He doesn't actually stop until I say "Do you want a time out?"...now normally kids would be threatened by this, but Dean literally stops what he's doing runs over to me and grabs my hand and pulls me to a time out area. He then sits there patiently (usually smiling) until time out is over. Right now this is working for me as I'm so big I don't want to wrestle him into time out, but I think we'll have to adjust our strategy in the future. Not to mention, it always makes him stop whatever bad behavior he was doing that caused the time out and does not return to it afterwards. In fact he plays very nicely afterwards. Yesterday when time out was over, he even went back to the time out area and counted to 10 by himself. I guess he'll be learning to count to 60 in no time since his time out is only 60 seconds right now.