TIME OUT - ILEGAL????!!!!

Um, that sounds pretty false.

well if that make that ilegal then our kids are going to go off the rails!

What if you put yourself in Time Out. Can they come arrest you for that.

I see time out as a good thing (within reason - ie if you put your kids in TO for all day then that wouldn't be very good but if it was just for a few moments while everyone cools down then thats Ok)

my friends mum used to that, literally , she would lock my friend and her older bro and younger sister in the cupboard...surprisingly my friend has very little to do with her mother ....

actually I heard something about Time out being made illegal too. something about it "restraining a child unecessarily" - not sure...

Well that's why I was disappointed that it wasn't clarified better in the first place. I don't want it overturned, I just want clarity.

Here's the actual text for anyone interested:
Parental control (s59 of the Crimes Act)

      (1) Every parent of a child and every person in the place of a parent of the child is justified in using force if the force used is reasonable in the circumstances and is for the purpose of—

            (a) preventing or minimising harm to the child or another person; or

            (b) preventing the child from engaging or continuing to engage in conduct that amounts to a criminal offence; or

            (c) preventing the child from engaging or continuing to engage in offensive or disruptive behaviour; or

            (d) performing the normal daily tasks that are incidental to good care and parenting.

      (2) Nothing in subsection (1) or in any rule of common law justifies the use of force for the purpose of correction.

      (3) Subsection (2) prevails over subsection (1).

      (4) To avoid doubt, it is affirmed that the Police have the discretion not to prosecute complaints against a parent of a child or person in the place of a parent of a child in relation to an offence involving the use of force against a child, where the offence is considered to be so inconsequential that there is no public interest in proceeding with a prosecution.


ETA: And a recent Police report on it which kinda shows that the incidents of these kind of reports aren't that high, but when parents are paranoid things can blow out of proportion. linky

Edited by busymum

caitlynsmygirl wrote: my friends mum used to that, literally , she would lock my friend and her older bro and younger sister in the cupboard...surprisingly my friend has very little to do with her mother ....

that's really shocking!   

but for some reason, i couldn't help but laugh

so really just radeing thru the crimes act thing it actually contradicts itself.


it just makes me mad that a woman (mp SB) who herself has been charged with assaulting a police officer (wheres the respect there????!!!!) and whos kids have been in and out of jail numerous times! wants to tell the good parents in this country how they should be parenting their kids?!

jack_&_charli wrote: caitlynsmygirl wrote: my friends mum used to that, literally , she would lock my friend and her older bro and younger sister in the cupboard...surprisingly my friend has very little to do with her mother .... that's really shocking!    but for some reason, i couldn't help but laugh

dont worry , she also told me her mother would stand them in a row and knock their heads together, and i used to have this image of those silver balls on a string, where you swing one and they all knock together , and i would have to try not laugh, probably helps that my friend is so calm about it "oh yes,,,,i remember the days my mother would lock us out of the house in the rain ...but it was ok ! we would play SURVIVOR!"

ROFL!
funny i pictured the silver balls too!

i remember seeing our neighbour who is a surgeon chasing his son up the road with wooden spoon, the son ( i think we wouldve been 7 or 8) was laughing his head off and then dad caught him and smacked him and O grabbed the spoon and ran to the nearest drain and threw it in and then stood there going "nah nah na na nahhh you cant smack me now" it was real funny to watch