Time Out

Since corporal punishment is no longer as acceptable in the modern world, especially not in the West (or at least not in Fiction Land, anyway, as plenty of cultures still practice spanking), misbehaving children (and occasionally pets) will be punished by the following:

• Sitting/Standing in the corner (or Standing in the Hall), Dunce Cap optional
• Go to Your Room
• You Are Grounded
• No video games or other perks
• More restrictive curfews

Examples of Time Out include:

• Dennis the Menace gets sent to the corner at least twice a week.
• Tomoko got sent to the corner, and her classmates kept throwing paper balls at her.
• This is one of Supernanny's forms of discipline: the naughty step (or corner if you're in a bungalow) where children are supposed to sit for one minute per their age (for instance, a 5-year-old sits there for five minutes) to reflect on their actions.
• This happens to Calvin in one strip, he's made to sit on a stool and wear a dunce's hat.
• Seven of Nine made the Borg twins do this in one Star Trek: Voyager episode.
• In Summer Heights High, Jonah is sent to the back of the classroom facing away from the rest of the students as punishment. However, he still has to do his work there. He gets threatened with being sent out into the hall after he continues to misbehave.
• Also happens in The Simpsons: When they are narrating the history of Lisa's first word, Bart tries to get rid of the baby in many ways, including sending her in the mail, and Homer punishes him this way, even sending Bart to the corner; tough, he is already there.
• When the Muppet Babies played schoolhouse, Piggy (the teacher) sends Fozzie to the corner for telling jokes, saying that if he wants to tell jokes, he can tell them to the wall. So he does. The wall doesn't like them, either.
• Recess has this happen to the kids a few times, most notably in "The Box"
• In Rugrats, Tommy was given five minutes of time-out in the pen after getting into a fight at daycare. Such time-limit seemed harshed, either a daycare worker pointed this out, given Tommy's age, but he did his time as he used this for plotting an escape.