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Replace “time-out” with “time-in”: Dubbo psychologist

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With increasing pressures on families to manage their children’s behaviour and wellbeing, a Dubbo-based child psychologist says the disciplinary practice of “time-outs” for poor behaviour should be banned – because they fail to help children become more emotionally resilient.

Tanya Forster, founder of Macquarie Health Collective, says parents need to “time-in” on those occasions, expl...


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