How do you deal with "Drama Queens"?

[Momof4]

I start timeouts as young as 18 months but I have a chair in the corner that they are not supposed to go on because it turns back and forth and I'm afraid of them tipping it over. So I use it as my timeout chair. I sit right beside them and tell them what they did wrong. I believe children that age have the attention span of fruit flies so my timesouts only last maybe 20 seconds. Then I hold both their hands in mine, look at them in the eyes and tell them one more time what they did wrong and if they made somebody else cry I take them over and have them hug their friend.

Once children reach the age of 2 and up they understand a lot better what they did wrong and I also get them to apologize but I follow this general method no matter what the age of the child.