Why you should never use timeouts on your kids

Not 15 minutes into the eight-hour class, certified parenting instructor Linda Hatfield, who runs a Southern California program called Parenting from the Heart, explained that decades of neuroscience and social research have shown that timeouts and other methods of punishment are not only ineffective in steering the behavior of children but outright damaging. "But… but… but…," I thought. "We’ve been giving our kid timeouts for years."