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Sickness

When your little one is sick, you want nothing more than to fix that as fast as possible. Prevent sickness and find ways to treat sickness when it happens.

How To Maintain a Schedule When Your Little One is Sick

October 20, 2022January 14, 2020 by valplowman
Mom comforting a sick baby

How to maintain your routine when your little one is sick. When your baby or toddler is sick, you can comfort and offer relief and still preserve the schedule you …

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Categories Schedule Tips, Sickness Tags flexibility 29 Comments

How To Treat Upset Tummies

August 10, 2020March 30, 2018 by valplowman
How To Treat Upset Tummies

How To Treat Upset Tummies and stop your child from throwing up. Nothing zaps you out of a deep slumber faster than a child leaning over you pronouncing the need …

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6 Simple Ways to Naturally Prevent and Treat a Cold

August 10, 2020February 21, 2018 by valplowman
How to Prevent and Treat a Cold Naturally with 6 Simple Steps

In this post: How to Prevent and Treat a Cold Naturally. Natural ways to prevent getting a cold. There are much worse sicknesses to have in life than a cold, …

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When to Keep Sick Kids Home and When to Send them To School

August 31, 2020September 7, 2017 by valplowman
When to keep kids home for sickness text overlaying sick kid in bed

School is back in full swing! If your house is anything like mine, you probably have a child who has already come home with a sickness. Fortunately for us, it …

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When To Keep Sick Kids Home

September 14, 2020February 13, 2017 by valplowman
When to keep sick kids home

  That feeling of dread washes over you. You saw the pictures on Instagram earlier that day. The photos of her little cutie lying limp on the couch because he …

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Surviving a Cold

October 17, 2022November 25, 2013 by valplowman
Surviving a Cold--click to read

How to help your baby survive a cold Cold season is upon us! And not only that, travel season is upon us. Those two things combined have a way of …

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Categories Sickness Tags Colds, doTerra, essential oils, Surviving 5 Comments

5 Tips for Preventing Illness in Your Kids

March 27, 2023April 11, 2013 by valplowman
Mom taking her son's temperature

There are many things you can do to help prevent illness in your kids. You can do simple things to help keep your kids healthy and keep sickness out of …

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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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