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Read different posts targeted at different age ranges of children. Get help on raising babies, raising pretoddlers, raising toddlers, raising preschoolers, raising children, raising tweens, and raising teenagers.

Prepping Siblings for Baby Tip: Establish Consistency

February 20, 2024March 26, 2019 by valplowman
Four children sitting on swings

How to prepare your kids for a new baby. Tips to make the transition to a new baby easy and how to make baby’s schedule work with the family’s schedule.  …

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Categories Baby, Parenting, Pregnancy, Siblings Tags consistency, newborns 9 Comments

5 Things to Know About Exclusively Pumping

August 14, 2023March 14, 2019 by valplowman
Breastpump on agranite counter with a white backsplash

Everything you really need to know about exclusively pumping. It is so hard, but it can have great benefits for you and baby! I’ve always believed that how you feed …

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Categories Baby, Bottle Feeding, Eat Tags pumping Leave a comment

How to Handle an Aggressive Toddler

May 26, 2021March 11, 2019 by valplowman
Two boys playing in the water

How to respond when your toddler or preschooler is hitting or hurting other children. Appropriate consequences as well as how to prevent aggression in the future.  How do you handle …

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Categories Discipline, Toddler Tags public behavior Leave a comment

Brayden Teen Summary: 13 Years 9 Months

May 21, 2026March 5, 2019 by valplowman
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Brayden Teen Summary: 13 Years 9 Months. All about a teenage boy who used Babywise as a baby. Teen life for a boy. This is a summary for Brayden from …

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Categories Teens Tags Teen Summary 2 Comments

How to Teach a Child to Be Gentle With a Baby

March 4, 2019 by valplowman
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How to Teach a Child to Be Gentle With a Baby. Tips for helping older siblings be gentle with the new baby when you bring baby home. The idea of …

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Discipline Methods for Baby: 10 Months and up

May 26, 2021February 27, 2019 by valplowman
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Discipline Methods for Baby: 10 Months and up. Different ways to help teach baby what is okay and what isn’t okay to do. Babies can learn! Babies are adorable. They …

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Categories Baby, Discipline Tags Babywise II 19 Comments

Brinley Summary: 6.5 Years Old

May 10, 2019February 22, 2019 by valplowman
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Schedule for a six year old. Summary of 6.5 year old girl. Daily life and routine of a first grader. This is a summary for Brinley from 6 years 3 …

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Categories Child Tags child summary 2 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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Schedules and Sleep

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    How to Transition Away From a Sound Machine

  • Sleep Hierarchy for Babies 3-6 Months

    Sleep Hierarchy for Babies 3-6 Months

  • Protecting Kids’ Sleep During Summer Travel

    Protecting Kids’ Sleep During Summer Travel

  • How To Keep Sleep Consistent When Days are Longer

    How To Keep Sleep Consistent When Days are Longer

  • You Cannot Force a Baby to Sleep — But Here’s What You Can Do

    You Cannot Force a Baby to Sleep — But Here’s What You Can Do

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