Creator of 'Time Out' child disciplinary tool honored with memorial art | University of Hawaiʻi System News
Arthur Staats was a professor at UH Mānoa from 1966 to 1997, and died in 2021.
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Arthur Staats was a professor at UH Mānoa from 1966 to 1997, and died in 2021.
The disciplinary technique known as the ‘timeout,’ which Dr. Staats pioneered in the late 1950s, gave parents an alternative to spanking and helped usher in a new era of child rearing.
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.