Resources for Every Stage of the Parenting Journey
Books, workshops, and honest writing curated TO MEET YOU WITH GRACE IN Your everyday
Whether you're laying the foundation with littles, navigating the teenage years, figuring out who you are on the other side of the launch or even as a grandparent, there's something here for you.
These parenting resources are shaped by a central conviction that runs through everything: the gospel is not merely something to believe, but a power that transforms our everyday. That the freedom Christ secured isn't reserved for the good days or the days you got it right. That Scripture is not a performance manual but the unfolding story of Jesus — where we find life by rooting our story in his.
Every book, every workshop, every essay on Substack points back to the same thing: a grace big enough to hold your real family life, your real failures, and your real questions.
Start where you are. There's something here for you.
Parenting beyond
Parenting beyond
Featured Workshop
Parenting Beyond: for the parent who's about to send them to college (or already has)
The college drop-off isn't the end of parenting. It's the beginning of a whole new season. And, it’s one nobody really prepares you for. The quiet grief. The identity shift. The texts you second-guess and the silence you didn't expect.
Parenting Beyond is a 60-minute workshop for parents of college-bound and recently launched kids. Practical, honest, and grounded in the gospel — because this season deserves more than a packing list.
Attendees will gain:
60-minute video workshop
Accompanying eBook
Practical tools for the letting-go season
$35 · Instant digital access
Teen Girls 8-Week Journal
Teen Girls 8-Week Journal
For Teen Girls
Teen Girls 8-Week Journal
Eight weeks of guided journaling designed to help teen girls slow down, look inward, and grow. Written by a counselor who knows exactly what's going on beneath the surface, each week tackles a topic she's actually living — identity, friendship, pressure, anxiety, peace, gratitude, and growth.
Not a Bible study or a devotional. Just honest, faith-rooted prompts that open the door to the conversations that matter most — whether she works through it alone, with her mom, or with a group of girls she trusts.
8 weekly topics:
Who Am I · Shaping Influences · Friendships · Pressures · Anxiety & Fear · Peace · Gratitude · Growth
$12 · Instant digital download
For Teen Girls & Their Moms
A GIRLS CAMP GUIDE
A GIRLS CAMP GUIDE
A Girls Camp Guide: For Teen Girls & Their Moms
What if your daughter could earn more in one week than most of her friends do all summer — running her own backyard girls camp? This nearly 100-page guide is exactly what she needs to make it happen, from setting a budget and recruiting campers to themes, crafts, and everything in between.
Kristen and her co-author ran this camp for seven years with their own daughters. The friendships, the memories, and the mother-daughter moments it created were worth every bit as much as the income.
What's included:
5 chapters covering every stage from planning to payday
34 craft instructions with photos
Budgeting, scheduling, and logistics guides
Essential checklists
$19 · Instant digital download
FOR PARENTS FACING THE EMPTY NEST
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01. Parenting Beyond Workshop
Workshop + eBook The anchor resource for this season. 60 minutes that will change how you see this chapter.
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02. For the Burdened Parent of College- Aged and Young Adult Children
You thought at this stage in life you would be footloose and fancy free. No one ever said this phase in parenting may be the hardest yet, and you wonder if that’s because it’s not that hard for anyone but you. After all, it seems as if everyone else’s children are following the script, doing what they are supposed to do and doing it well. You fear you failed as a parent and no one else can relate.
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03. Embracing a New Normal After a Child Leaves for College
The drop-off changes everything — but maybe not in the ways you expected. Kristen writes honestly about the grief, the adjustment, and the unexpected gifts that came when her daughter left for college. Less control. More trust. And a new normal that turned out to be sweeter than she feared.
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04. Soiling the nest
You've heard of empty nest — but what about the messy season just before it? There's a reason your college-bound teenager suddenly seems impossible to live with. Kristen names the phenomenon nobody talks about, and why understanding it might be the most freeing thing you read before drop-off day.
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05. Tips for Every Mother-in-Law
The empty nest doesn't just change your relationship with your kids — it opens a new chapter with the people they love. Kristen shares honest, gospel-rooted wisdom for building a strong relationship with your adult child and their spouse. Because when we honor their marriage, something bigger is at work.
FOR PARENTS OF Teens
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01. Books and Devotionals
Find practical guides for teens on topics such as social media, identity, and worth. Devotionals to help teens develop their own faith. Perfect for individual study or for small groups.
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02. Journal Prompts for Teen Girls
Eight weeks of guided journaling designed to help teen girls slow down, look inward, and grow. Written by a counselor who knows exactly what's going on beneath the surface, each week tackles a topic she's actually living — identity, friendship, pressure, anxiety, peace, gratitude, and growth.
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03. Raising Resilient Teens
Raising teens in today’s world can feel overwhelming and impossible. Listen to Kristen on the FamilyLife Today podcast share wisdom on how to overcome fear, let go of control, and build a foundation of faith and resilience in your children.
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04. How Parenting Out of Weakness Strengthened My Relationship With My Teen
What if your failures as a parent aren't disqualifying you — they're actually the doorway in? Kristen shares a vulnerable, honest moment with her own daughter and what it taught her about the surprising way weakness builds trust, and how going first with your own need for grace changes everything with your teenager.
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05. The Growing Problem of Perfectionism and the Perfect Solution in Jesus
Perfectionism isn't just a personality quirk — it's exhausting, and it's everywhere. Kristen gets to the root of why so many of us are trapped in the cycle of never quite measuring up, and points toward the only thing that actually breaks it. Not more effort. More Jesus.
FOR PARENTS OF LITTLES
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01. Parenting Ahead
The foundational resource for this stage. Helps parents of young children build a gospel-centered home before the teen years arrive — intentionally, not reactively.
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02. Grace-Based Discipline in Real Life
Discipline is one of the hardest places to actually live out what we believe about grace. It's easy to parent from the gospel in theory — and much harder in the moment when someone's being defiant at the dinner table. Kristen brings the theology down to earth, showing what grace-based discipline actually looks like in the real, messy moments of family life.
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03. Law vs. Grace in Parenting
Straight from the Redemptive Parenting podcast, join Kristen and her husband, Pastor Pete, for insights on parenting with a gospel-informed approach.
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04. Parenting Ahead When You Cannot See The Forest For The Trees
When your kids are little, the teen years feel like a lifetime away. And then suddenly — they're not. Kristen writes honestly about the grief of time passing too fast, the guilt of wondering if you got it right, and the gospel-grounded hope that the small decisions you make in the early years matter more than you know. A beautiful read for any parent who wants to parent with the long view in mind.
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05. Identifying Our Parenting Idols
What's actually driving your parenting — and are you sure it's what you think? Kristen takes an honest, unflinching look at the hidden idols that quietly shape the way we parent: control, comfort, our kids' success, and what other people think of us. Not to shame — but to name. Because until we can spot the idols in our own lives, we can't help our kids see theirs either.
