Fruits of the spirit - "stay" and "come"

I have some great ideas on how to teach children to stay put. I haven't done them all, but I've done most.

The first is to have a regular play time in an enclosed (smallish) room and leave the door open. This is the way I taught Mary (starting around 12 months). Each morning after breakfast we would go play in her room and I would tell her that we were going to stay in her room. Anytime she left the room I would say, "Mary come back, we are staying in here!" And I would physically move her back into the room and say again, "we are staying in here". Repeat as necessary:) Once I knew that she understood what "stay" meant, any time she disobeyed she would get a mommy hold time out. This is where I pin her arms and legs down to her sides with my arms and legs and hold her in my lap (1 min for each year). Now that we spank we just do that. I think she is grateful we read about spanking. She sincerely HATED the mommy hold time out. It worked though!

I have found that method a little difficult with Noah because it's a longer period each day and it's hard when I'm trying to teach him something and Mary wants to do it too. So with him I have been trying to be consistent with blanket time. I learned it through toddlerwise and mom's notes, but I was determined to do it because the Duggars do! I set out a blanket with one toy on it. Put baby boy on there and tell him to stay sitting on the blanket until my phone goes off (I wave my phone at him). He didn't really get it at first so it took a lot of repetition, but he gets it now. I still only set my phone for about 6-7 minutes and want to work up to 10-15. I will have to remind him 2-3 times still to stay on his blanket, but we only do it 2-3 times a week. I want to get up to 4-5 times a week so it can be more consistent.

Another idea is to have your child sit in a chair with books. It has to be a chair that they have the ability to get out of though...or it's not really teaching them to stay. Mary does this on her bed before sleep. I had to think of some way to get that kid to CALM DOWN. And it's also helping her to like books!

And finally we will play "stop and go" which I'll talk more about later in the "stop" post. But when I say "stop" sometimes I'll tell her not to move her feet and then I'll walk away. So basically teaching her further to stay put!

And as for "come to mommy": I have a post on that here:
http://thelubbersfamily.blogspot.com/2010/01/come-to-mommy.html