Guide for Grown-Ups

Guide for Grown-Ups is a concise and practical companion to the Training Young Hearts series by Abbey Wedgeworth. Written for parents and caregivers, this guide helps adults go deeper into the gospel-centered lessons introduced in the children’s books, offering biblical insights for applying those truths within everyday family life.

Encouraging and proactive in its approach, the book emphasizes connection and heart-level discipleship over shame-based discipline. Its short format makes it highly accessible, while its rich biblical perspective provides parents with ...a helpful framework for redirecting and resetting their parenting goals with grace.

At just $3.99, Guide for Grown-Ups is an affordable, impactful resource that equips parents to cultivate gospel-centered homes where both children and adults are reminded of God’s grace in everyday moments.

*I received a review copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

This little book, Guide for Grown‑Ups, is a treasure for any parent using the Training Young Hearts series with their children.

At just thirty‑one pages, the guide is refreshingly concise yet powerful. It opens with the story of redemption, then gently walks parents through understanding misbehavior—not just as something to punish, but as teaching moments rooted in grace. With compassion and clarity, Wedgeworth offers guidance on correcting behavior, guiding emotional growth, resolving conflicts, and fostering empathy. She equips parents with ...“training refrains,” tips for confession and repentance, and insights into how a child’s developmental limits intersect with spiritual formation. 

What stands out is how this guide frames disciplinary moments not as failures, but as opportunities for gospel-centered growth. The tone remains calm, gentle, and Christ-focused throughout, reminding readers that God is at work even in the toughest parenting moments.

I love that it’s short yet rich—easy to revisit whenever I need perspective or a word of encouragement.

Guide for Grown-Ups isn’t just a companion to the board books—it’s a comforting reminder that parenting doesn’t have to be perfect to point our children toward Jesus.

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.

This guide 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. 

This 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.

I received a complimentary copy from the publisher, and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.