we do this with DD1, she is 2.5 now. We ask her to stop if she doesn't we count to three and then she goes onto her chair. She will tell us when she is ready to hop off, then she gives us/her sister kiss if she has hurt someone and then talk about what she did wrong. Its very effective, if we are out she we can count to three and she stops what she is doing.
I actually tried this yesterday for the first time and it seemed to work. DD is 21months, and has taken to kicking with her legs when she is laying down, eg for nappy changes, and just telling her "no, thats not nice, that hurts mummy" wasn't working so yesterday, she was doing it while I was feeding DS - luckily didn't kick him, but kept kicking me, and laughing when I told her no so I gave her a warning that she will go in time out, and when she kicked me again, got up (DS was upset about having his feed interuppted lol!) and stood her by a wall, just outside of the living room. I had to stand with her, but after I reckon 20seconds, I repeated why she shouldn't kick, and then let her back into the lounge, where I got something to distract her with, and we didn't have any kicking for the rest of the day. She did cry briefly when I took her to the wall, but a cuddle after the explanation worked well.
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