Spare the rod, spoil the child

[Jackalope]

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.

An alternative is to have the child stand facing a wall or corner of the room and contemplate their wrongdoing.