Infants and timeout - or what age?

I swear, I totally understand why some people believe that in order to be parents people should have to take classes and tests. READ SOME BOOKS HONEY.

I would sit him in a chair. Tell him what he did wrong like "you cant pull the cats tail it hurts" then leave him for one min. Do this whenever he does wrong. He will eventually listen if he has to sit everytime hes bad. The rule on time out is one min for every year old. So my son is 5 he has to sit in time out for 5 min. Good Luck!!

In my opinion he is not to young for a time out. I would put him in time out for a minute or two. Biting is something a lot of kids go through but you have to keep paying attention to what is causing him to bite. One thing I did when my daughter was biting (and I do with my daycare kids)is tell them that "Biting hurts people!" or "Biting is only for food". The experts say that kids that age will remember the last word you say to them. When you say "don't bite!" they hear and remember bite. If you say "Biting hurts!" they will remember that it hurts. It sounds hokey, but it really works. Best wishes to you!

Babies are all such individuals. It's hard to say whether or not your child is ready for time outs or not. He probably isn't, but he might be if he is understand everything around him already. My son is 15 months old, and we started time outs this week. We redirected when he was smaller. We would tell him "No, please don't pull out all the movies." or "No, please don't bite Trinitie's tail. It hurts." and then we would move him away and give him something new to play with. We started time outs, because he was starting to laugh and tell us no, when we told him not to do something, and then continue to do it anyway. He was going right back to it after we moved him away. So we had to come up with something new. Right now he sits on the couch with no toys and no pets for about a minute to a minute and a half. I tell him why he has to sit there and not play, and then hug him before I put him back on the floor. It's working pretty well. But he understands much more than he did at 10 months. He wouldn't have been ready then.

Redirection works wonders. Just be consistent, like everytime he gets into something just move him away. Sometimes it takes forever but he'll catch on. Also point to the object and tell him "no, we don't touch that" or something like that. Some people will recommend slapping his hands, don't do that because it will prevent him from exploring-which is crucial for developmenthttp://www.askdrsears.com/html/6/t062100.asp How tempting it is to slap those daring little hands! Many parents do it without thinking, but consider the consequences. Maria Montessori, one of the earliest opponents of slapping children's hands, believed that children's hands are tools for exploring, an extension of the child's natural curiosity. Slapping them sends a powerful negative message. Sensitive parents we have interviewed all agree that the hands should be off-limits for physical punishment. Research supports this idea. Psychologists studied a group of sixteen fourteen-month-olds playing with their mothers. When one group of toddlers tried to grab a forbidden object, they received a slap on the hand; the other group of toddlers did not receive physical punishment. In follow-up studies of these children seven months later, the punished babies were found to be less skilled at exploring their environment. Better to separate the child from the object or supervise his exploration and leave little hands unhurt. You also need to pick your battles. I knew that a bunch of books on the shelf were just begging to be ripped. So for awhile, we moved those into a different room. You are doing a great thing with the biting, it sucks but once them teeth are through he'll stop. I just started to use timeouts and my son is 1 1/2. Redirection was no longer working for him.

I gave up on standards of "how to raise your child". I am her parent I know my instincts I do what works. At two months she was on solids. which most moms would frown on, but according to "books" when they stopping sticking there toungue out when you feed them they may be ready also my kid has been rolling over since she was two weeks. Basically My daughter will be one and she gets a little tap on teh hand and put in the playpen ( whichis teh absolute end of her world) when she refuses to listen. I swear she is to smart for her age :). So timeout for a minute or two is ok. It may take 300 times before he gets it, but hey who wants to be bitten..

He is just a baby... 10 months old? I don't think a timeout will do you justice. He is at the age where he is learning new things and it's his job to be all over the place. I never heard of a timeout for a 10 month old baby. My son will be 16 months tomorrow and he is into everything and I also feel he is starting to know right from wrong, in some kind of way. What I mean by this is he is always pulling my glasses off my face or pulling hair and when he does this, I tell him "no, no, not nice" but I say this in a mellow tone and then I move his hands away and then I try to redirect him in another direction. Just try some redirection. I don't think timeouts is going to work just yet and I don't think you can get him to sit still at 10 months anyway. He will catch on soon enough. My son now when I say "not nice" he moves his hand on his own now. He was just like your son at 10 months. SO just be strong, it will get better. Sometimes it has to get worse in order to get better. Your an awesome mom, don't woory about it to much. It will come natural. Do what you feel is best.