Arthur Staats Dies at 97; Called ‘Time Out’ for Unruly Kids
Literary references to grounding unruly children reverberate from at least the early 19th century, when the father in the 1835 novel “Home,” by Catharine Sedgwick, sternly orders his son Wallace to “go to your own room” after scalding a cat. Such banishments were later epitomized by the Swedish artist Carl Larsson’s 1894 watercolor “The Naughty…