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Childwise

Learn all about On Becoming Childwise. Find out what it teaches and how the novel by Garry Ezzo helps parents raise their children in the best way.

Helping Siblings Like Each Other

May 6, 2019March 16, 2015 by valplowman

  As my children grow older, I worry less about things like sleep and eating and more about bigger issue things like morals and relationships. Sleep and eating are not …

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Categories Childwise, Siblings Tags love, tattling 2 Comments

Should You Control the Environment for Your Children

March 4, 2019June 25, 2012 by valplowman

Should You Control the Environment for Your Children. What you should try to control and what you should let go. I have talked about Controlling Environment for Toddlers. Last month, I …

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Categories Childwise, Parenting Tags freedoms Leave a comment

How to Teach Respect for Personal Property

May 6, 2019June 18, 2012 by valplowman

How to Teach Respect for Personal Property. How to teach children to respect the property of others. We have recently been talking about teaching virtues to children. We talked about …

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Categories Childwise, Moral Training Tags character, respect 1 Comment

Teaching Virtue and the Importance of YOU

March 4, 2019June 11, 2012 by valplowman

Childwise Principle #8 is:   “To teach a virtue, one example (you) is better than a thousand lectures” ( On Becoming Childwise , page 92).   Parental example is vitally important …

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What vs. How of Training Your Child’s Character

June 26, 2019June 4, 2012 by valplowman

What vs. How of Training Your Child’s Character Children are different from each other. Very different. Any of you who have more than one child know that well. And my guess …

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Categories Childwise, Moral Training Tags character 2 Comments

Avoid Legalism

March 4, 2019December 19, 2011 by valplowman

    Moral precept number six in On Becoming Childwise is to Avoid Legalism When Giving Instructions. Let’s start with an explanation of what Legalism is.   Legalism is viewing …

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Categories Childwise Tags context, legalism 2 Comments

Evaluating and Teaching Context

May 6, 2019December 12, 2011 by valplowman

Our last moral precept discussion from On Becoming Childwise was on teaching Why. That idea spills over in our topic for today: context.   Have you ever given your child …

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Categories Childwise, Moral Training Tags context 3 Comments
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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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