RE: 1-2-3 Magic: How do you make it work for 2-year olds?
We picked a dining room chair that's in the corner but facing out. I didn't think DS would stay in the chair but he does. Some of the time he will just go and sit if I get to 3, sometimes if he is being really wild I will need to put him in the chair. If you don't think your DS will stay in a chair I would go with the bedroom and a gate. I had planned on role playing to introduce time out by counting and putting DH in time out before DS but we did not get to do it. One afternoon when we were reading the book DS was misbehaving and we just started counting.
It's worked well for us but some weeks it seems he is in time out much more than others.
Michelle I
DS 1 - 7
DS 2 - 5
DD - 1