"Time out is a place to think about why I ask you not to do X, and for you to think about how I am feeling right now because you didn't listen."
Don't use the word punishment. It's a reprimand or a consequence, but the word punishment just makes people think it's someone being mean.
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"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes, of ships, of sealing wax, of cabbages, of kings! Of why the sea is boiling hot, of whether pigs have wings..."
"I have a problem with low self-esteem. Which is really ridiculous when you consider how amazing I am.
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