Power of Families Radio

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The Key to Happiness Nov 13, 2018

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What do you think is the key to happiness? Could it be gratitude?

In this episode, Saren reads three popular posts on gratitude. Each post offers stories and concrete ideas to help you pump up the gratitude in your personal life and in your family and enjoy all the happiness it will bring.

What Schooling is Right for Your Child? Aug 28, 2018

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What kind of schooling is right for our children? Public school? Charter school? Neighborhood school? Private school? Homeschool? There are so many choices these days!

In this popular episode from our archives, Saren and April (director of our sister site, Power of Moms) share what works for them and offer helpful ideas to help you decide what is right for your children and family.

Meal Planning Tips Aug 14, 2018

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Feeding our families is one of the most basic things we do as parents. It can be stressful and haphazard - or it can be deliberate, efficient, and even joyful. Listen as Saren and Power of Moms Director, April, discuss ideas (their own and ideas submitted by our community) for how you can develop a meal planning system that really works for your family.

Simple Ways to Instill Positive Character Traits Aug 07, 2018

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Join Saren as she interviews her fabulous, and renowned mother on ways to instill positive character traits!

Helping Siblings Develop Strong Friendships Jul 10, 2018

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n this episode, Saren shares three important ways that we can set our children up for strong friendships now and in the future. She shares specific and easy ways that you can help your children learn to:

Resolve their own conflicts and repair problems that arise between them
Bond with each other through working, playing and experiencing things together
Support each other through knowing what is going on in each other's lives and being each other's greatest cheerleaders

Parenting Strong-Willed Children Jul 05, 2018

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In response to questions from readers, Saren offers concrete ideas for how we can work more effectively with children who are strong-willed, opinionated, and/or stubborn and who we clash with all too often.

As a fellow struggler iwth this issue, Saren uses specific scenarios to explain the approaches and steps that can help us get on the same side as our child and work together to solve issues that arise.

Summer Goals Jun 07, 2018

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In this fun episode from a couple years ago, Saren interviews her 9-year-old twins about their summer goals and about why goals and some "productive" activities are important during the summer.

Included in this episode:

Ideas for specific goals and ideas for how to set goals in a variety of different areas
How to keep from being bored during the summer
What kids are required to do each day during the summer
What fun activities kids are excited about doing during the summer
A candid discussion about how they feel about the "must-do's" and other things they do daily in the summer and share how they keep a positive attitude and stay motivated about doing the things they don't always enjoy that are part of their summer responsibilites

Feel free to have your children join you in listening to this one!

Preventing Entitlement May 29, 2018

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Listen in as Saren is interviewed by the group "Family Looking Up" as they discuss ways to help prevent entitlement with our children.

Making Summer Awesome May 08, 2018

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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!

Empowering Kids With Choices Apr 24, 2018

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Children of all ages often feel that they don't have all the freedom they want and this can be manifest in tantrums and power struggles and teenage rebellion.

How do we decide what choices our children should have? How do we help them recognize the freedom they already have? How do we help them learn to make good choices?

In this episode, Saren and April discuss how and when to give our children the freedom and control they crave.