Time Out Sheet
Wow! I had such a huge response about our time out sheet that I thought I’d post it here for everyone. Feel free to tweak it to fit your families needs and the ages of your kids. I originally got the idea from pecentral.com where they talk about time out with purpose. Crystal Coffman who teaches PE at Green Valley Elementary School in Roanoke, VA submitted her “Time Out” Worksheet to pecentral.com and that’s where I got the basic ideas for the time out questions. (I wanted to be sure to give credit where credit was due.)
So here are our questions that keep my seven year old out of time out . . .
1. Why do you think you are in time out?
2. What could you have done differently so that you wouldn’t be in time out right now?
3. Will you try to choose the right from now on? _____ YES _____ NO
4. What do you think you could do now to make amends?
That’s it. Four simple questions that seem to be the worst thing in the world to have to sit in time out and answer. I hope this helps keep your kids out of time out too.
