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When my daughter was young and acted up, she got a time-out in a specific chair, placed in the corner, her facing the corner. If she got up too many times, she'd then have to sit on the bed in my bedroom for whatever minutes I deemed appropriate for her age. It was usually for like 3 minutes or so because she was only 3 when this particular incident occured.
She'd acted up and wouldn't stay in her time-out chair so I put her on the bed in my room. I closed the door and started timing. She starts crying like she was hurt and was almost hysterical. I couldn't imagine she was that upset but chalked it up to being just that. After a few more seconds of this, I decided she'd hurt herself somehow. As I opened the door, I realized I'd shut her in there with the light off and it was in the evening sometime when this happened. Talk about feeling like a horrible parent! I couldn't believe I did that to her.
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