Books

Growth Spurts: Growing Through Motherhood 

For ten years, Carrie Bevell Partridge wrote her “Growth Spurts” column for Parents & Kids magazine, documenting the milestones, celebrations, and challenges that she and her husband Kevin encountered while parenting their five children. With each monthly article, Carrie wrote humorous and heartwarming stories and, more importantly, shared what she learned through each experience.

This book contains every “Growth Spurts” article Carrie wrote. As parents read, they will find themselves nodding in understanding, laughing in familiarity, and possibly crying in nostalgia. The hope is that they will gain insight through these stories and will begin to recognize opportunities for their own growth spurts.

Motherhood has provided an environment for abundant growth and learning for Carrie. She writes to encourage other parents in their own journeys and to remind them that they are not alone.

Carrie’s Little Book of Ideas: Gratitude

Speaking it, writing it, acknowledging it, posting it on the wall… There are so many ways to bring gratitude to light and make a big deal out of it! I believe so strongly that we parents must be intentional about teaching this to our children. But we can’t teach them something we don’t understand and put into practice ourselves. It’s not just our kids who struggle with feelings of entitlement. We need to keep ourselves in check, too. Let’s fight entitlement with gratitude.

This book will give you some practical steps to help make this a reality in your family. Included in this resource are some ideas for ways your family can serve others, ways to help your family gain awareness of others, ways to cultivate an attitude of gratitude in your family, and Scripture passages to encourage gratitude and thinking of others.

Carrie’s Little Book of Ideas: When Parenting Hurts

Parenting can be one of the greatest joys in life, but it can also be one of the greatest heartaches. The love that we parents naturally have for our children is deep. And when we love much, we risk hurting much. Included in this resource are some ideas for things to do, things to remember, conversations to start, Scripture to meditate on, and even music to listen to when you, as a mom or dad, are going through a difficult time. When–for whatever the reason–parenting hurts.

Carrie’s Little Book of Ideas: Meaningful Christmas

Christmastime is steeped in meaning and tradition. Time with family, a spirit of generosity, and feelings of nostalgia, happiness, and hope are all widely emphasized during this season. It is a season ripe for harvesting meaningful traditions for our families –– traditions that hold both purpose and significance. Included in this book are a variety of ideas for making Christmastime a meaningful time for your family –– particularly through meaningful traditions, gifts, and generosity. Get inspired and get creative!