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Quick and Easy Dinner Ideas for Hectic Nights

July 16, 2024September 5, 2019 by valplowman
Child reaching for strawberry

Read below for many easy and fast meal ideas and recipes for busy nights. When your baby is fussy and you can’t cook or you are running around, these are …

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Categories Recipes Tags sports, tips and tricks 1 Comment

That Ref is My Son

May 15, 2019March 12, 2019 by valplowman
Ref at a soccer game

When watching your kid’s games, think twice about how you treat the ref. That ref is someone’s child. You are also setting an example for your own children.  Parenting has …

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Categories Extra Curricular Tags sports Leave a comment

Why I Hate the Concept of Everyone Wins

August 10, 2020March 27, 2018 by valplowman
Why I Hate the Concept of Everyone Wins. How everyone winning leads to everyone losing.

Why I Hate the Concept of Everyone Wins. How everyone winning leads to everyone losing.    Everyone is a winner. Participation trophies. Everyone wins and no one loses. I get …

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Categories Discipline, Parenting Tags sports 2 Comments

Choosing a Coach/Teacher…How to Find the Right Fit

October 12, 2020March 24, 2016 by valplowman

  I look back on it as one of my biggest parenting mistakes ever. Perhaps it is my worst mistake. At the time, I wasn’t sure what was the best …

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Going to Your Kids’ Games Prepared

October 12, 2020March 2, 2016 by valplowman

  This wasn’t exactly the vision I had in mind. Most things in the real life of parenting aren’t, but this almost seemed insane. My feet were soaked. My bones …

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Categories Extra Curricular Tags sports 3 Comments

Competitive Sports for Kids {the Good, Bad, and Real}

October 12, 2020February 5, 2016 by valplowman

  Competitive sports for children are starting younger and younger. More children are starting playing competitive sports and younger ages and more leagues are dropping the age minimum for playing …

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Brayden Summary: 10.5 Years Old

April 18, 2023December 1, 2015 by valplowman

Brayden is a very good and very sweet big brother This is a summary for Brayden from 10.25 – 10.5 years old. EATING Eating is going as usual. He eats …

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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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