LT, I'm in if it's not too late.

We always did timeouts at the bottom of the stairs-we had a door that would close there. Bedroom would never have worked-too much fun stuff to do there.

Once my two daughters were fighting with each other and generally being mean to each other. I told them both to go to time out. Nice as can be, one girl turned to the other and asked if she preferred the steps or the chair in the dining room. I had to turn my face to hide my laughter.

We were foster parents for kids with behavior disorders of various kinds. We found frequent, short timeouts to be the best way of curtailing bad behavior and encouraging good. One reward that worked wonders for our kids was an "extra" 15 minutes before bedtime. If they did the things they needed to get ready for school on time, they got the extra 15 minutes. They never did catch on to the fact that the "extra" 15 minutes was really the time I wanted them in bed. Parenting win