toys in time out

As I told you yesterday, SJ broke his glasses at school.  I was trying to think of an appropriate punishment.  I could take away computer, wii or his DS.  But after talking to my mom, I decided to take some of his plushies away (his Mario stuffed animals).  My mom suggested that I take away all of them (he has about 10) for about a month.  That was way too extreme for SJ.  When he returned from the vision center with my husband, I told him that I was very disappointed in his behavior and he started his normal apologies.  "Sorry Mom...Sorry Mom...Sorry Mom," he said.  I told him that sorry wasn't enough and that I was taking some plushies for a few days.  He started crying like I had taken gold away from him.  Plushies are his currency.  Every kid has some kind of currency that they treasure more than anything.  He went and got the plushies and I put them somewhere were he could see them but not touch them.  We started doing this "toys in timeout" thing shortly after he was diagnosed.  Until about two years ago, he simply couldn't sit for the age equivalent timeout.  Sometimes you have to pull out old parenting tricks.  We also told him that the next time he threw his glasses in a tantrum he would lose all the plushies for 7 days.  "What...not...7...days!!!!," said SJ.    Hopefully, this punishment will teach him that it is not worth the tantrum.