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Practical, fun tool for parents raising toddlers. Encourages obedience motivated by God’s love and grace.
Part of the Training Young Hearts series.
Fun lift-the-flap board book that motivates small children to use their hands in a Christ-like way.
This helpful and engaging training tool will help parents to teach their kids that God didn’t make their hands for behaviours like snatching, pushing, or hitting but for positive actions like waving, clapping, praying, high-fiving, helping and serving.
Not only will children be encouraged to follow Jesus’ example, but they’ll also be reassured that he loves us no matter what we do. He can forgive us when we fail and help us to change.
This book is part of a new series called Training Young Hearts that addresses the attitudes of the heart that underpin behaviour and explains how the gospel of grace enables us to change.
Parents, teachers, and other loved ones can refer back to these resources when specific behaviours need both to be corrected and to be connected to forgiveness, grace and growth.
| Age range: | 1+ |
|---|---|
| Contributors | Abbey Wedgeworth, Emma Randall |
| ISBN | 9781784988937 |
| Format | Board book |
| First published | September 2023 |
| Dimensions | 165mm x 165mm x 20mm |
| Weight | 0.31 kg |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 9 |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
I am incredibly excited about these new books from Abbey Wedgeworth. Engaging, helpful, and full of truth, these books are sure to become a favorite in your home!
One of the most important ways we can train young children is to teach them what is right as well as teach them what is wrong. In the Training Young Hearts series Abbey Wedgeworth faithfully shows children how to live while also telling them the good news of God’s grace. These board books are such an engaging (and fun!) way to teach big truths to young hearts.
The Training Young Hearts board books will help parents encourage positive behavior through one of the most effective methods of learning—play! These engaging books will not only instruct kids but parents too, by equipping both with training refrains based in biblical truths. Abbey has provided us with an incredible tool to help us clearly and intentionally communicate with our kiddos in a way that points to them to Jesus.
Training Young Hearts book series is a new lift-a-flap board book for little ones and their parents to enjoy together. As an educator, I find value in the formula of each book in this series, a few pages that ask questions (and you get the answers under the sturdy flap with simple, clear child-friendly illustrations).
First, the book talks about what to do with your hands, then what not to do, then teaches the child that Jesus was human and had hands and used them to obey God with the Holy Spirit's help, just like the child can do! Each body part book repeats this same formula, with every page requiring a lifting of the flap, and examples that are natural child tendencies.
Are these books immensely creative and entertaining for the reader, not likely. But are they developmentally appropriate for the intended audience? Why yes they are. Will the format, style, and questions/answers appeal to the child it is intended to be read to, yes.
Will the sin concept be understood or misunderstood as other reviewers imply, I do not think it's a problem. I see this as a tool to train young hearts in how to use their bodies and in the basic concepts of faith from the youngest age.
I've already purchased the four-book set as a baby shower gift finding the series worth the investment. I believe if you are reading to your child from a young age, this series is worth owning. Encourage your child to read, re-read, read alone, and ask every loving adult in their life to read again. I have other books from this stage of my children's lives still memorized and my kids are 14, 18, and 22. This would have been a much-preferred option than a book about pajamas, a cat, or goodnight, and far more worthy of learning.
I purchased these books on my own and am reviewing them to share with those looking for honest input.
This book and the whole series - engaging, sweet, cute, truthful; so impressed with and thankful for these enjoyable books for young children.
This is a great little book for babies with the flaps to pull open but very meaningful and relevant to 3 year olds ( and much older ) as well - refers to Jesus in such a positive and relatable way - I ordered all 4 and plan to read them to my grandsons ( 5 months and almost 3 years ) over and over !
Gave these to my daughter for my grandchild. She loved the books and said she needed some good books teaching the principles of Jesus
Our daughter and granddaughter love the book,we live in another state and are thankful for this resource
I didn't open the flaps because this book is a gift, but I love how this book give positive alternatives to problems common to children instead of just saying "don't do this". I look forward to reading this with my nephew.
We love this series. We have the whole set and love each book without exception. It engages my 2 year-old in age appropriate ways and explains the Gospel in a way littles can grasp without inducing guilt or shame. There really is no other books out there like these.
Beautiful and engaging book, with big flaps. Not only it talks about what hands are but also what they aren’t for like snatching. Seamlessly integrated with Bible verses and compared to Jesus and God. Written in a way that even the smallest readers will understand and learn from. I honestly couldn’t remember this book enough.
We have the hands and mouth books. They are on repeat in our house and we constantly are referring back to them. Toddlers love to flip open flaps on every page and the concepts are presented in a memorable way.
I’m a FTM and these books have given me the language to disciple my daughter while drawing boundaries around what’s good and allowed with our actions! I’m so grateful for this resource. Anytime she hits someone we talk about how that’s not what God made our hands for and go through the most of what God DID make our hands for! I’m so thankful for this book!!
