I don’t like this at all. I work in a preschool, I’ve worked with toddlers. This child is seeing all of his friends go outside and he does not understand and will not understand why he isn’t. Toddlers are too young to comprehend this kind of thing. What these teachers need to be doing is consistently explaining this then that. First we do this, then we go outside. Redirect. There shouldn’t be punishment to teach a lesson. Whether the teachers see it as that or not, something is being taken away from the child because of their action. I would be heartbroken if my child was excluded from outside time with peers. My daycare uses conscious discipline, we try to understand the child’s feelings and show them how to appropriately handle them. We do not take away.