Silent Disobedience

It was a bad day when Caleb figured out how the child locks work to open doors. In his mind the legos in AJ's room, makeup in my bathroom, and food pantry are all free game. Timeouts in our house are spent in the hallway on a bar stool, a minute for every year you are. Three minute timeouts can actually add up to quite a bit of time in a little boy's day. Of course, it is Caleb and he has no problem accepting consequences for his actions. If a negative consequence doesn't make you mad, is it really a consequence?

His last timeout, I left the room to check on the other kids, and came back 90 seconds later to make sure he was still on the bar stool. He was, but standing on top of the bar stool with his hands raised, completely naked. His clothes were lying in a pile on the floor.

I did the only thing I could and walked back out of the room.