COMMUNICATION
Picture the scene: you’re exhausted after a long day, you’ve barely had time to shower, and you’re trying to get through dinner with your family. Then your 12-month-old holds out their spoon, looks you in the eye and drops it to the ground. For the third time. As their parent, how should you respond?
By shutting them in their room, says Caroline Goldman, the ultra-strict French child psychologist who argues that 1-year-olds are mature enough to be punished with timeouts.
Her parenting advice might sound extreme to anyone who believes a 1-year-old does not have the motor skills to grasp a spoon in their
