Arthur Staats Dies at 97; Called ‘Time Out’ for Unruly Kids
Arthur Staats Dies at 97; Called ‘Time Out’ for Unruly Kids
A behavioral psychologist, he advised that it was more productive to briefly isolate a misbehaving child than to spank or yell at him. Thus a household phrase was born. Literary references to grounding unruly children reverberate from at least the early 19th century, when the father in the 1835 novel “Home,” by Catharine Sedgwick, sternly orders his son Wallace to “go to your own room” after…
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