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The Screaming Non-Verbal Baby/Toddler

February 25, 2026February 25, 2026 by valplowman
Screaming toddler or baby

Is your toddler screaming and throwing fits because they can’t communicate? Stop the tantrums with these 7 practical strategies—from teaching sign language to requiring communication effort. Understand what’s behind the …

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Categories Discipline, Pretoddler, Tantrums Tags communication, sign language 14 Comments

How to Deal with a Whining Child

September 15, 2021 by valplowman
whining girl

7 important tips to follow to deal with your child’s whining. Find out tips to prevent whining and how to respond when your kiddo whines. If you do not yet …

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Categories Discipline Tags Babywise II, sign language, whining 11 Comments

How to Teach Your Baby Sign Language

October 4, 2024March 1, 2021 by valplowman
baby doing sign language

How to Teach Your Baby Sign Language to enhance language development and avoid tantrums. When to start and the benefits. When we talk about teaching baby sign language, we do …

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Categories Baby Tags Babywise II, language development, poll results, sign language 13 Comments

McKenna Baby Summary: Week 51

January 12, 2021March 23, 2010 by valplowman
51 week old McKenna

Schedule and routine for a 50-51 week old baby. Get info on this 11 month old daily schedule and routine for each day and know how to structure your day. …

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Categories Baby Tags baby summary, sign language 39 Comments

McKenna Baby Summary: Week 45

January 5, 2021February 9, 2010 by valplowman
45 week old baby and her sister playing

Schedule and routine for a 44-45 week old baby. Get info on this 10 month old daily schedule and routine for each day and know how to structure your day. …

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Categories Baby Tags baby summary, sign language 10 Comments

McKenna Baby Summary: Week 27

December 5, 2020October 6, 2009 by valplowman
6 month old McKenna

Schedule and routine for a 26-27 week old newborn baby. Get info on this baby’s daily schedule and routine for each day and know how to structure your baby’s day. …

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Categories Baby Tags baby summary, sign language, sippy cup 32 Comments

Controlling the Young Temper

August 17, 2021September 3, 2008 by valplowman
Controlling the young temper tips. What to do when your young toddler has a tantrum. 

Controlling the young temper tips. What to do when your young toddler has a tantrum. I recently wrote about how Brayden (now 3) had a short fuse when he was …

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Categories Tantrums Tags sign language, tempers 8 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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