[QUOTE=PDOUBLEOP]Time outs are okay but the one thing I would avoid is putting them in their crib for timeout. Children will learn to associate their bed with punishment. Find a special place for punishment unless you want them sleeping with you???
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I totally agree.
So we have cut WAAAAY back on the climbing. Here's how:
Praise him when he climbs into a chair and sits on his bottom
Show stern disapproval when he climbs and stands. If he keeps standing, we take him away from everybody and put him down (kind of a time-out lite). If he does it again, we remove him from the room and put up the childgate. Oh, he HATES that.
Repeat ad nauseum.
Now if I can just get him to stop microwaving potatoes...