A Practical Guide to Intentional Parenting & Family Legacy

Parenting By Design

A thoughtful guide to raising children with purpose, conviction, and intention, helping you build a strong family culture that lasts for generations.

AS FEATURED IN

FAITH • HOMESCHOOLING • CHARACTER • TRADITIONS • SERVICE

About The Author

Kenton and Rebecca are passionate advocates for intentional parenting, strong marriages, and faith-filled family life. As parents of a large family, they have dedicated their lives to creating a home centered on faith, learning, meaningful traditions, and purposeful living.Their family’s journey has taken them from Canada to Austria, where they immersed themselves in classical education, Catholic theology, and a simpler way of life that transformed their approach to marriage and parenting. Drawing from years of homeschooling, outdoor adventures, family traditions, and firsthand experience raising their children, they offer practical wisdom grounded in both lived experience and thoughtful reflection.
Through Parenting by Design, Kenton and Rebecca encourage parents to move beyond simply managing daily life and instead intentionally build a family culture that nurtures virtue, character, faith, and lifelong learning. Their hope is to inspire families to embrace parenting as one of life’s greatest callings and to leave a lasting legacy for generations to come.

What Readers Say

This book completely shifted how we view parenting. Instead of just reacting to daily chaos, we now have a clear vision for our children's character and faith. It’s practical, inspiring, and deeply needed.

As homeschooling parents, finding resources that cover both academic encouragement and character formation is rare. Parenting by Design gave us concrete ideas for building lasting family traditions and a strong culture at home.

A Roadmap for Purposeful Parenting" "The insights on shaping confident, virtuous adults gave my husband and me the clarity we were looking for. It reminded us that we are the primary architects of our children's future. Every parent needs to read this."

Whether you're just starting your family or already raising teens, the timeless principles in this book are adaptable to any stage. It helped us focus on what truly matters: faith, service, and love.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

About The Book

Parenting by Design is a thoughtful guide for parents who want to raise their children with purpose, conviction, and intention rather than simply reacting to the demands of everyday life.Drawing from the authors’ own journey of faith, marriage, homeschooling, and raising a large family, this book shares practical wisdom for building a strong family culture centered on lasting values. From nurturing a love of reading and exploring the outdoors to establishing meaningful traditions, cultivating prayer, developing character, and preparing children for adulthood, each chapter offers practical principles that can be adapted to families of every size.More than a parenting manual, Parenting by Design challenges parents to become the primary architects of their children’s formation. It encourages families to create a home where love, discipline, faith, learning, adventure, and service work together to shape children into confident, responsible, and virtuous adults.Whether you are a new parent or have years of experience raising children, this book provides timeless insights and practical strategies to help you build a purposeful family legacy that will endure for generations.