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Funnel

As your child gets older, you need to allow your child have more freedoms without giving too many freedoms. Read these posts to understand the funnel.

How Too Many Freedoms Leads to Disobedience

May 26, 2021August 29, 2019 by valplowman
Angry child looking at the camera

You want your child to learn to make decisions and have freedom to do so, but allowing it at too young of an age will only lead to disobedience. When …

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Categories Funnel, Preschoolwise Tags disobedience, freedoms, obedience, wise in own eyes 4 Comments

Wise In Your Own Eyes Explained

August 14, 2019 by valplowman
Blonde girl wearing a green beret looking at the camera

How “wise in your own eyes” leads to conflict between you and your child. Understand what decision-making freedoms to allow your child to have. While our little ones are babies, …

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Categories Funnel, Preschoolwise Tags freedoms, wise in own eyes 14 Comments

How to Keep Siblings in the Funnel

February 6, 2019 by valplowman
Boy and girl walking across a bridge together

How to parent more than one child and keep rules and privileges age appropriate for each child. Keep children in the funnel. To parent inside the funnel means that you …

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How to Teach a Child How to Make Decisions

March 16, 2020January 16, 2019 by valplowman
Girl on a bridge

How to Teach a Child How to Make Decisions. How to set your child up for success to make informed decisions and accept the consequences of those decisions. This is …

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Categories Funnel, Toddlerwise Tags boundaries 14 Comments

Commanding Obedience within Reason

May 14, 2019February 18, 2014 by valplowman

  Kaitlyn and I recently read The Little Prince together. As we were reading along, there were a lot of gems of wisdom throughout that I saw differently now that I am …

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Categories Discipline, Funnel Tags leadership and authority 1 Comment

How to Set Boundaries for Children & Siblings

January 18, 2023October 8, 2012 by valplowman
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Get info on how to set boundaries for kids and how to manage freedoms and boundaries in siblings. Learn how you manage to balance this when you have multiple kids …

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Categories Funnel, Pretoddler, Pretoddlerwise, Siblings Tags boundaries, prevention 4 Comments

The Problem with Constantly Needing to Correct a Child

January 18, 2023October 1, 2012 by valplowman
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The reason needing to correct a child constantly is a big problem. What you can do to fix it and avoid this difficulty. Shortly before my third child was born, …

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Categories Funnel, Pretoddler, Pretoddlerwise Tags freedoms 6 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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