Where punishment, not even timeout, will have no home

Today, as we celebrate SpankOut Day April 30th -- an annual observance founded by the Center for Effective Discipline (now part of the Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center) to bring attention to the need to stop physical punishment of children and promote nonviolent discipline -- I want to encourage everyone to take this movement a step further than ending spanking as a discipline method. It's time to talk about timeout and the detrimental effects this very widespread alternative to spanking has on children, families and society.