Well, I guess I just believe in the consistency rule of behaviour for children so I'll stick with timeouts. If anybody has a better idea I'd love to hear it!

I have a 15 month old boy who is putting everything in his mouth and drooling on my couch until it is drool soaked by noon if we have an inside morning and it's completely grossing me out, but he can't help it, he's teething. I'm so tired of saying 'no toys in your mouth' 100 million times a day! I have a 23 month old with his fingers in his mouth all day because his molars are coming in poor guy, but he's drooling too and getting germs in his mouth all the time, ewwwwww.

I don't give them timeouts for this behaviour by the way, that's just natural. However, when there is bad behaviour or non-listening for the 23 month old there is a time out. I don't give 15 month old children a time out, I guess I start that at about 20 months or older when they understand what it's all about.