Raising little kids are not easy, especially when you have many in a room together. They just want to play—usually with the same toy. One moment they are belly-laughing, and the next moment they are laughing while banging a toy over the head of the child that had just made them laugh. How do we help them stop? We can’t really have much of a conversation with them about it. We can only move them to the other side of the room so many times, especially if they are siblings. They will eventually see each other again.
Kids love looking at picture books. Books help us to teach and reinforce words, sentences, and ideas. The ideas in these two books are simple. God has made our mouths, and he has made our hands. But what do we do with them? 
Emma Randall, the illustrator, does a fine job of drawing sweet pictures of kids playing, making each other laugh, or kissing their mommies (below).
Of course, we know kids don’t always play nice. They don’t always kiss but bite. But did God make our hands or mouths to do that? No, he didn’t.
But who is this God? As both books go on, they tell about how Jesus was a child who used his hands to serve others and his mouth to tell truth and love to others. He used his mouth to say “yes” to God to accomplish their plan to forgive us of the wrong we do, and he stretched out his hands on the cross so that no matter what we do God could open his hands to us.
As a result, instead of wanting to take, we can give. Instead of being unkind, I can say “I’m sorry,” love others, and sing thanks to God.
Recommended?
I understand kids’ board books are not always cheap. But if you’re going to buy your toddler board books anyway, why not buy these? They point kids to Christ, his person and character, and what he did on the cross for us. They point to what kids want to do (but shouldn’t) and show them what they can do instead. These are nice books that my youngest son enjoys looking at, and I enjoy reading them to him.
Buy What Are Hands For? on Amazon or from The Good Book Company
Buy What Are Mouths For? on Amazon or from The Good Book Company
Lagniappe
- Series: Training Young Hearts
- Author: Abbey Wedgeworth
- Abbey Wedgeworth is a wife, mother, and writer. The author of Held and the Training Young Hearts series.
- Illustrator: Emma Randall
- Emma Randall is a freelance illustrator specialising in children’s illustration, including the hugely popular Diary of a Disciple.
- Emma Randall is a freelance illustrator specialising in children’s illustration, including the hugely popular Diary of a Disciple.
- Paperback: 18 pages
- Publisher: The Good Book Company (August 31, 2023)
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