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Play Time

Find all of your wake time activities and ideas here. Learn to calculate baby wake time, how to structure your child’s playtime from baby on up, and great toys to use in that playtime each day.

Baby Playtime Activities By Age

June 17, 2024May 20, 2024 by valplowman
Baby sitting on the floor playing with toys

Get ideas for what to do with your baby for every month of life in baby’s first year. These ideas will help you structure baby’s playtime. You will also find …

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Categories Baby, Play Time Tags Best Toys, routine Leave a comment

How To Do Tummy Time Even if Baby Hates It

April 17, 2024April 17, 2024 by valplowman
Baby Brinley doing tummy time

Even if baby cries when you do tummy time, it is so important. Here are ways to do tummy time when baby hates it so you can avoid developmental delays. …

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Categories Baby, Play Time Tags Baby Whisperer, newborns, physical development, tummy time 11 Comments

Wake Time Length (Wake Windows)

September 26, 2024April 8, 2024 by valplowman
Baby rubbing their eyes

Get all of the tips you need for getting your baby’s wake time length down (aka wake windows). All of these posts will help you get that down perfectly so …

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Sleep Pressure for Babies

April 11, 2024March 25, 2024 by valplowman
Baby sleeping wrapped up in a blanket with oranges on it

Sleep pressure is necessary for a baby to be tired enough to fall asleep and sleep well for naps and for night sleep. Learn what sleep pressure is, how to …

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Categories Baby, Sleep, Wake Time Length Tags baby sleep, sleep patterns Leave a comment

Play Time for Children: Baby-Kids

July 31, 2024March 11, 2024 by valplowman
Child sitting in a basket playing with a megaphone

Play time is the “wake” portion of your eat/wake/sleep cycle. During your playtime, you want to challenge and stimulate your child, but you do not want to OVER stimulate your …

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Structuring a Pretoddler’s Day: 15-18 Months Old

November 15, 2024November 29, 2023 by valplowman
Toddler girl sitting on the train tracks

How to do more than just make it through each day with your toddler. Tips to structure your toddler’s day and really thrive! Thrive rather than just survive! Whew! You …

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Categories Play Time, Pretoddler, Toddler Tags More Than Making it Through the Day, Top 8 Comments

Independent Playtime: The Ultimate Overview

February 4, 2025November 15, 2023 by valplowman

Get a full overview on independent playtime. Learn all about independent playtime and its benefits as well as how to implement it and solve any problems. Get information for independent …

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Categories Babywise, Play Time Tags independent playtime, waketime activities 33 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

  • Toddler Sleep Routines to Help Them Sleep

    Toddler Sleep Routines to Help Them Sleep

  • 8 Steps to Get Your Child to Sleep In Later in the Morning

    8 Steps to Get Your Child to Sleep In Later in the Morning

  • When To Stop the Dream Feed

    When To Stop the Dream Feed

  • It’s Okay If Your Baby Sleeps “Only” 10 Hours at Night

    It’s Okay If Your Baby Sleeps “Only” 10 Hours at Night

  • How to Dress Your Child for Better Sleep: Finding the Optimal Temperature

    How to Dress Your Child for Better Sleep: Finding the Optimal Temperature

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