Also by this author: Held: 31 Biblical Reflections on God's Comfort and Care in the Sorrow of Miscarriage, What Are Hands For?, What Are Eyes For? Board Book, What Are Ears For? Board Book, What Are Feet For? Board Book, Your Magnificent Mouth: A Training Young Hearts Rhyming Book, How Do We Know Christianity Is Really True?, What Happens When We Die?, Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?
Series: Training Young Hearts
Published by Good Book Company on August 1, 2025
Genres: Non-Fiction, Parenting
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Author Abbey Wedgeworth shares some of the principles behind the Training Young Hearts board books and provides tips on how to use them as you seek to lead your little ones to Jesus and to train them in positive behavior.
Starting with the story of redemption, she explores some of the reasons children need help to behave well and explains why moments of discipline can actually be the perfect opportunity to share the gospel with our kids.
This encouraging, simple guide offers plenty of practical advice about how to respond well when little ones misbehave, how to help children resolve conflict, and how to build emotional resilience in our kids. You'll be reminded that God is at work even in the most challenging moments of parenting.
This short pamphlet for adults goes with the six lift-the-flap board books in the Training Young Hearts series, which teach little kids about appropriate behaviors. For example, What Are Hands For? gives positive examples about what God made our hands to do, and then talks about what God did not make our hands for, like hitting other people. Each book introduces God’s creative design, how we misuse our bodies when we sin, and what Jesus did to bring us back to a right relationship with God. The books emphasize that through the help of the Holy Spirit, we can choose to do the right thing. In this supplementary guide for adults, author Abbey Wedgeworth explains how to best use this series with kids, and she shares some additional parenting insights.
Guide for Grown-ups is just thirty-one pages long, and it explains the pattern that the series follows related to the story of redemption, as well as ways that parents can recognize and have compassion for their child’s developmental limitations, while also correcting harmful behaviors like biting and hitting. The book also includes outlines for teaching confession and repentance, scripts some training refrains, and gives some advice for teaching age-appropriate conflict resolution and emotional regulation.
Guide for Grown-ups: A Training Young Hearts Book is a helpful supplement to the board book series. This pamphlet is very brief, but it offers clear, gospel-centered advice, and it emphasizes how important it is for parents to remain calm and gentle when training their kids, instead of being emotionally reactive to bad behaviors. This title is available as a low-priced paperback or ebook, and it also comes with the boxed set of Training Young Hearts board books. Although not everyone who uses the board book series will feel a need for this book, it’s a nice, optional add-on.