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valplowman

Valerie, also known as The Babywise Mom, is the mother to four children. She has been blogging on Babywise and general parenting since 2007. She has a degree in technical writing and loves using those skills to help parents be the best parents they can be! Read her book, The Babywise Mom Nap Guide, to get help on sleep from birth through the preschool years. You can also find her writing at Babywise.life, Today Parenting, and Her View From Home. Read more about Valerie and her family on the About page. Follow her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram for more tips and helps.

9 Hobbies a Mom Can Do At Home

January 3, 2022January 6, 2012 by valplowman
9 Hobbies a Mom Can Do At Home

While it isn’t always easy to do hobbies as a mom, it is valuable. Here are 9 ideas for hobbies you can do at home as a mom. When you …

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Categories Motherhood 3 Comments

How to Make Reading Aloud Enjoyable for Parents

January 3, 2022January 5, 2012 by valplowman
how to make reading enjoyable

Reading aloud to our kids is very beneficial, but it isn’t really always fun for parents. Here are tips on how to make it more enjoyable to do. If you …

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Categories Reading Tags Reading Magic 2 Comments

Forgiveness in Marriage

January 3, 2022January 4, 2012 by valplowman
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How to show forgiveness in marriage. In your marriage, it is important to forgive and also to seek forgiveness from your spouse. Forgive and forget. I think the nature of …

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Categories Marriage Tags forgiveness 2 Comments

Tips for Making and Achieving Goals

January 3, 2022January 3, 2012 by valplowman
Setting goals

Have success with your goal-setting this year! Find out how to overcome failure and reach your goals that you want to set. It is that time of year again! The …

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Categories Parenting Tags goals 4 Comments

Top 10s 2011-2014

January 13, 2025January 2, 2012 by valplowman

When I was a teenager, one of my favorite things around New Year’s was to watch the shows that counted down the “best of” that year. I thought it would …

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Avoiding Legalism as a Parent

December 10, 2021December 19, 2011 by valplowman
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As parents, we need to allow for our children to learn and apply context to different situations. Rules should not be black and white. Moral precept number six in On …

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How I Do It Series: What I Learned From You!

December 10, 2021December 16, 2011 by valplowman
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Everything I learned from readers during my “How I Do It” series of posts! There are a lot of great tips given by readers. Through this series, many of you …

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Valerie Plowman

Valerie Plowman, known as "the Babywise Mom", is the happy mother of four children. She has been helping parents with their parenting concerns since 2007 and loves helping others absolutely love being a parent.

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