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Toddler cage

 Time _out_.
 
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They say time out is the best way to discipline toddlers. But how to keep them out? Or keep from destroying everything in the room where they are? I propose the toddler cage. This would be a snap-together cube. When not in cube form the walls could be used as a play surface. When snapped together this would be a durable plastic cage. There would be slots to look out, of course.
—bungston, Nov 28 2003

//time out is the best way to discipline toddlers// http://www.timeout.com/newsstand/
Do you roll it up before you smack them with it? [dobtabulous, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]

Apparently locking a child in a closet could get you fired, if not arrested http://www.nbc6.net...2554380/detail.html
Even if the closet is really a small room and can be opened from the inside. [DrCurry, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]

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       Should this be under Home: Child Control?
—wombat, Nov 28 2003
   

       Will you give them a plastic cup to grate against the bars?
—silverstormer, Nov 28 2003
   

       You're talking about a playpen, right? How is that a new idea?
—DrCurry, Nov 28 2003
   

       What? You never heard of duct tape?
—ato_de, Nov 28 2003
   

       Playpens are for little babies and kids who can just barely walk. Once they are seriously walking a soft-walled playpen cannot contain them. Playpens have low walls and no roof. Thus: the cage.
—bungston, Nov 29 2003
   

       You can make it out of fishbones.
—UnaBubba, Nov 29 2003
   

       Two toddlers enter. One toddler leaves.   

       Could it be a dome instead of a cube?
—Laughs Last, Nov 29 2003
   

       I think imprisoning a child in a cube is perhaps a bit more severe and frightening than time-out really needs to be.
—waugsqueke, Nov 29 2003
   

       I'd go with the cage and the duct tape.
—python, Nov 30 2003
   

       //my nephews and nieces really play my brother and sister up//   

       <tongue in cheek> Where do they live? Alabama? </tic>
—yamahito, Dec 01 2003
   

       //I think imprisoning a child in a cube is perhaps a bit more severe and frightening than time-out really needs to be.//   

       Do you have any children? I have two, and putting them in seperate cages seems mild.
—ato_de, Dec 01 2003
   

       Compared to what?
—waugsqueke, Dec 01 2003
   

       The beauty of the cage is that it does not produce the scary isolation involved in closet lockups, or the physical hands on force involved in hanging on to the kid to physically restrain and subdue them. The kid goes in the cube but can look thru the bars and see their folks nearby. Fussing and flailing is to no avail. When they settle down, they are released.
—bungston, Dec 01 2003
   

       Compared to the primal urges induced by willfull disobedience and the defiant infliction of grevious bodily harm on siblings, animals and/or property.   

       <aside> As effective as "time-out" is, there are times when I have missed the warning signs and the build-up of the tempest and find myself at sea in the raging storm of full childish fury. Like Mother Nature Herself, a toddler's uncontrolled backlash is an awe-inspiring sight, occasionally of biblical magnitude. At these times, (and you'll notice I have qualified this by saying I missed the early warnings that could have allowed me to head this off at the pass) you must ride out the storm, hopefully without damaging anything, especially your child, this is when the cage would be welcome. nothing to break, nothing to throw, removed from the situation and allowed time to calm down. It isn't about punishment, it is about getting away from the problem and letting the emotional storm subside. </aside>
—ato_de, Dec 02 2003
   

       http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jkmorony/ssa2.htm Something like this? Or a modified tent I saw once on a page of Parents with a dissabled child. http://home.att.net/~tomsturr/wsb/main.htm   

       You will find a lot of resources under special need. Or what about a bunk bed where you put some sort of net around the lower bed? I like the idea, special if you have more than one child to supervise
—LordGrey, May 16 2004
   

       //Will you give them a plastic cup to grate against the bars?//   

       I almost choked to death laughing about the image of that. A poor little sad faced toddler raking his sippy cup against the bars of the playpen. His slightly older sister sits in another playpen singing the blues in a nonsensical style.
—Zimmy, Aug 01 2006
   
      
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