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Things To Do With Your Kids When You Are Stuck Home

September 10, 2026March 16, 2020 by valplowman
Mom doing indoor activities at home with kids

How to structure your day when you are stuck at home with your kiddos. Activity ideas and schedule ideas to get through your days. There are many times in life …

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Categories Parenting Tags Family Activities, indoor play, learning activities 2 Comments

How To Get Your Little One To Pee or Poop on the Potty

September 25, 2020February 25, 2020 by valplowman
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Use this one simple tip to help your little one pee or poop on the potty. Make the whole potty training process easier. It is easy and very effective! It …

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Categories Potty Training Tags pooping, tips and tricks 12 Comments

3 Ways to Show Your Child Unconditional Love

September 22, 2021February 19, 2020 by valplowman
Boy smiling as he hugs his mom

Want to know the best ways to show your child unconditional love? Find three ways to show unconditional love to your child in this post. I think we have all …

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Categories Parenting Tags love, love language 7 Comments

12 Chores Your Toddler Can Actually Do

June 16, 2026February 3, 2020 by valplowman
Toddler doing chores

Are you looking for some chores your toddler can do? Do you love the idea of your toddler learning to do chores, but you aren’t sure what she CAN do? …

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Categories Chores, Toddler Tags chores by age 2 Comments

How To Help a Perfectionist Child Who Won’t Try

September 8, 2021January 27, 2020 by valplowman
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Read up on how to help your perfectionist child overcome the difficult traits of perfectionism and use perfectionism as a strength rather than a weakness.  When Brayden was a young …

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13 Parent Child Date Ideas

March 17, 2025January 22, 2020 by valplowman
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Kid date ideas to do with their parents. These work great for mother son date ideas, father daughter date ideas, mother daughter date ideas, and father son date ideas. When …

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Categories Parent Child Dates Tags family time 1 Comment

How To Be an Authoritative Parent

January 21, 2020 by valplowman
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The authoritative parenting style is the very best parenting style out there. Find out why and how to be an authoritative parent.  Did you know that among the four different …

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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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    Protecting Kids’ Sleep During Summer Travel

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    How To Keep Sleep Consistent When Days are Longer

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