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Discipline Methods

Discipline methods to help you get ideas for how to best correct your child and teach him/her how to behave. You will find discipline tools for you to implement to help you prevent issues as well as tips on how to respond when your child disobeys.

Using Encouragement as a Discipline Tool

January 18, 2023January 23, 2020 by valplowman
Mom encouraging her daughter

There are many ways to discipline, or correct, a child, and encouragement is one of those! Read all about how to use encouragement as discipline in this post. Did you …

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Categories Discipline Methods, Pretoddler, Pretoddlerwise Tags attitude, prevention 4 Comments

Utilizing “Ask and Tell” to Get Your Kids to Obey in Public

November 4, 2019 by valplowman
Mom talking to daughter at eye level

This powerful parenting skill can help you prepare your child for great behavior in public. Set your child and yourself up for success when you go anywhere from the park …

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Categories Discipline Methods, Preschoolwise Tags prevention 10 Comments

How I Discipline Without Spanking

July 18, 2023March 6, 2017 by valplowman
How I discipline without spanking

I am not afraid to say that my children are very well behaved. Oh sure, they make mistakes. They do things they shouldn’t. Most of the time, however, they are …

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Categories Discipline Methods Tags BFBN Leave a comment

Discipline Strategy: Think Prevention First

May 18, 2020May 31, 2010 by valplowman
Family happy and holding hands

One of the most powerful discipline strategies you have is to prevent negative behavior before it happens. Read about how to prevent rather than react. One of the best positive …

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Categories Childwise, Discipline Methods Tags prevention 4 Comments

Prepping for the Dentist using Training In Non-Conflict + Ask & Tell

April 20, 2020April 30, 2010 by valplowman
Mom with three kids

Some tips for how to prep your kids for the dentist using simple training in times of non-conflict plus ask and tell to get your kids mentally prepared. We recently …

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Categories Discipline Methods Tags dentist tips, in action, non-conflict training 6 Comments

A Simple One-Liner To Keep Your Preschooler On Track

September 23, 2019September 28, 2009 by valplowman
Preschooler looking confused with a solid white background

A perfect discipline phrase to help your preschooler on track and doing what she should be doing. This one-liner is simple and effective.   On Becoming Preschoolwise talks about two …

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Categories Discipline Methods, Discipline Phrases, Preschoolwise Tags prevention 2 Comments

Why Prevention is a Powerful Parenting Tool

February 26, 2020May 15, 2008 by valplowman
mom and dad walking with a child outside at twilight

Why Prevention is a Powerful Parenting Tool. Prevention is a great way to avoid parenting problems and pitfalls.  Prevention is talked about it the Babywise series, but I wanted to …

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Categories Discipline Methods Tags prevention 7 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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