Spare the rod, spoil the child

[Jenny A]

What on Earth is a "timeout"?

It's go to your room light, i.e. time spent sitting down quietly apart from the action. It's usually used on a child playing rough with others, being too noisy, running and/or making messes. There's a rule of thumb every parent and eventually every child knows: time outs are one minute long per year of age.

It wasn't a thing when I was a child, but by the time I became a parent it was standard in the U.S. parent's repertoire. The elementary schools use them too.

I've know parents who could use them.