Power of Families Radio

Latest Episodes:

Giving Up as a Viable Strategy Sep 25, 2024

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In this episode, Saren shares some experiences she's had with one of those age-old parenting issues – getting kids to clean up their room. She also shares some helpful tips for figuring out when it may be time to "give up" or simply let up on certain things that we want our children to do as we respect their opinions and needs and build our relationship with them.

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What Parents Need to Know About Depression and Anxiety Sep 18, 2024

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Join Saren as she and Jane Clayson Johnson, an award winning journalist and author, discuss Jane's book Silent Souls Weeping about depression, anxiety, and how to help ourselves and our loved ones.

Paying Attention Sep 12, 2024

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Join Saren and her mother, Linda Eyre, as they discuss how you can really give your children your full attention - and why this is so important!

Back-to-School Questions and Answers Aug 08, 2024

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In this week's episode, Saren answers questions from our community concerning dealing with anxiety, saying yes and no to the right things, making the most of car time, and after school routines. Join us!

Celebrating the Real Meaning of Easter Mar 30, 2023

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Join Saren and her sister, Saydi, as they discuss wonderful ways to celebrate and discover with your family the real meaning of Easter.

One-On-One Time Feb 09, 2023

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Join Saren and April Perry, Director of Power of Moms, for a 20-minute conversation where they share simple tried-and-true ideas for making one-on-one time with each child into a regular and meaningful part of the family routine.

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Why Good Eating is a Part of Good Parenting Jan 19, 2023

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In this encore episode, Saren talks with Katie Kimball from Kitchen Stewardship about how what we eat, the way we talk about food, and the way we prepare food is such an important part of parenting.

Katie offers concrete ideas to help us really enjoy cooking alongside our children as we teach them responsibility, build their skills and self-confidence, and get them excited about healthy eating.

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Balancing Marriage, Parenting, and Self Care Jan 05, 2023

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Join Saren, her mom, and her sisters for a wonderful discussion that all of us need! Balance! How do we take care of our marriages, our children, and ourselves?

Simple Halloween Fun [Audio Post] Oct 12, 2022

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Do you find Halloween to be fun? Stressful? Scary? Annoying? All of the above? How can you make Halloween really work for your family?

In this audio post, Saren reads her popular post, A Deliberate Mother's Guide to Simple Halloween Fun, and shares some of the many many great comments with further ideas added by readers. The principles shared here apply to ALL holidays!

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Making Summer Awesome (Encore) May 24, 2022

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Today we are bringing back a favorite episode to help you prepare for summer. Those long, lovely summer days can offer some of our family's best memories, but how do we create a little more structure so that we can make the most of summer? How do we motivate our children to do some reading, get some exercise, and help out around the house rather than lazing around all day? How do we organize all the fun activities we would love to do in such a way that we really do a lot of them? How do make summer fun for the parents AND for the kids?

Saren and April (from Power of Moms) share detailed, tried-and-true ideas for summer learning and fun. We hope it fills your mind with fun do-able ideas that will work for you and your family!

For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com