Time-out method of punishing children is ‘harmful’

A LEADING parenting specialist has warned that the increasingly popular “time-out” method of punishment harms children.

Clinical psychologist and presenter of the television programme Families in Trouble David Coleman said sending children to be by themselves after they have misbehaved is counterproductive.

And “the step” punishment favoured by some US-based reality parenting shows is sending children the wrong message.