I've tried time out consistently for months and it turns into a big fight every time more then once a day. I set him in time out he gets up, I put him back, he gets up again. This repeats over and over for an hour or more. I stay pretty calm most times but he starts out thinking it's funny and ends with yelling and screaming mean things at me. I tell him like a broken record "you need to sit still and be quiet for a few minutes your in time out" he never listens. By the time he finally calms down and sits for the few minutes he's already forgotten what he did. Even though the super nanny does this in her show and it somehow works for her that after the first couple times they learn but it's been months and nothing's changed. Lately I have been finding ways to prevent his tantrums instead, like he's about to get mad so I sit and talk with him and distract him and then he forgets (sometimes).