Time Out?

While I was cooking in the kitchen today, Michael wandered over to the chimney and smiled at me. I said, "Michael, if you touch that chimney, you go into timeout."

I turn back to cooking, and about 10 seconds later, I hear a door close in my apartment. It is quiet. Too quiet.

So I find Michael, in his room, on a self-inflicted timeout. When Michael gets a timeout, he gets put in his room and we shut the door. He didn't even touch the chimney, but I guess he understood the words "timeout."

Sooo...it makes you wonder...is he so good and put himself in timeout? Or is it that he actually likes timeout and doesn't mind to go, even if he didn't do anything wrong?

Hmmm....either way, don't think TimeOut is going to work in his room anymore! And I had a heckuva time trying to explain to him that he didn't do anything wrong so he didn't need to go into timeout after all.

Love,
P